Two days after being elected president of Benfica, Rui Costa guarantees that he spent hours of hard work, despite remembering that he was already in office in recent months, after taking office following the resignation of Luís Filipe Vieira.
“It’s been hours of hard work, essentially. Basically, since the 9th of July it hasn’t changed that much because it was already, in another way, doing a bit of these functions», he said.
Rui Costa was speaking on the sidelines of the mass in memory of Ângelo Martins, former player of the incarnates, who died precisely a year ago. “Unfortunately, I’ve never seen him play, but the memories I have of him, as a training player, are as a junior coach when I was in juniors and initiates. At a later stage, he was no longer in the juniors but he was a little with all the teams. He was a man of tremendous race and he managed to instill that in us too. He was a great name for the club, he was two-time European champion, with a fantastic record», he said.
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