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It is the return to Benfica Campus of a familiar face of the entire football structure of Sport Lisboa e Benfica. After a few months of interruption in his professional activity, Nélson Veríssimo is preparing to assume the technical command of equip B of the Club, succeeding Renato Paiva.
At 43, Nélson Veríssimo returns to SL Benfica’s team B, now as coach, after having served as an assistant coach since the rebirth of the project in 2012, until the 2018/19 season. During these seven seasons he assisted Luís Norton de Matos, Hélder Cristóvão and Bruno Lage, with whom he would promote to the Main Team, having remained in charge until the end of last season.
OR return to Benfica Campus as coach represents a new challenge in the career of Nélson Veríssimo, although in a context that he knows well. On the other hand, the role is not entirely unknown for the coach who, in two periods (early January 2019 and in the final stretch of the 2019/2020 season), assumed the technical direction of team B and the main team, respectively. provisional.
Veríssimo’s professional career in the SL Benfica coaching staff allowed him to have a Extensive knowledge of the context, objectives and importance of team B in the Club’s global training project, in addition to acquiring experience at the highest level of football Benfica. During this development and learning process, the technician had a Decisive role in launching countless youngsters to the elite levels of national and international soccer.
Is a coach “Made in Benfica”, after also being a player.
For this new stage, Sport Lisboa e Benfica wishes them all the best.
