The 35-year-old centre-back continues with a lion on his chest and wants to “write a new story” next season
Sporting officially renewed the contract with Neto, valid for another season, until 2024, as Record had reported. The 35-year-old centre-back leaves for the fifth season in a row in Alvalade and has the desire to write “a new story in 2023/24”.
“In view of what was my last year, I am very happy to have the opportunity to try to make a different year, both individually and also to help make the year different collectively. I thank the club, the staff, the technical team and I am very grateful to the mister and to the entire structure that invited me to continue. Now it is time to work and try to get on a different path, in a new story in 2023/24. We have a lot of work to do and we have to leave a very different image of what it was last year”, he pointed out, to Sporting TV.
Despite having faced several obstacles last season, with an injury to his left knee and a spontaneous pneumothorax, the experienced centre-back assumes he is “fine”. “I know the corners of the house. The group is practically the same, the structure too. I feel comfortable here, happy. I feel at home as Seba feels [Coates]the Adam, the Nuno [Santos], the Pot. I caught a transition phase here with the mister, practically a new era since the mister arrived. We were part of the group that was national champion after 19 years. I think that my renewal comes a lot from there, from what was built at the Academy at a structural level, the taste for winning and hating to lose “, he pointed out.
Neto also reinforced that the group is “aware” that in the new season it is necessary to turn around the text, after the 4th place in 2022/23: “Last year was a bit different from what we have been doing since this technical team came in, so we are all aware that this year will have to be very different. I hope to help on and off the field. We have a good group, with a lot of hope that things will go well”.
Finally, the Portuguese international recognizes that, as one of the elements with the most experience in the squad, he will also be beneficial for the young talents that are emerging in the main team. “It is the legacy that remains in our career. We want to help them as much as possible and try to ensure that these kids, with quality, can reach their maximum potential. Sometimes it is not easy, there are several stages and each one has their own time. help the older ones and tell them to be calm, this is just football, in a very big club, and take that weight off them. , finished.
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2023-07-03 16:17:17
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