Sérgio Conceição, coach of FC Porto, was invited to comment on Pepe’s performance against V. Guimarães and left praise for the center:
«I have great pleasure in training Pepe. Of all the colleagues I had and there were many in many clubs, Pepe is the most competitive and professional player I have worked with. The will he has is unbelievable. He is the first to appear at Olival and is one of the last to leave. He has a mentality within what I have known here from great players. It is in the very restricted lot of the great champions that represented the club. This is FC Porto, this is the mystique: it is Pepe », he said, in the press room at Dragão.
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