Luís Filipe Vieira explains the severance of relations with Pinto da Costa

The Benfica president says there was a time when Pinto da Costa betrayed his word in an agreement and that since then he no longer has a normal relationship with the FC Porto leader.

In an interview with RTP3, Luís Filipe Vieira was asked about the severance of relations with Pinto da Costa and the leader of the incarnated revealed a meeting between the two, in addition to the president of V. Guimarães and Braga at that time, to define the future of the presidency. of the league.

The president of Benfica says that he reached an agreement with Pinto da Costa for the election of president -Luís Duque- and that the agreement was later broken, when Pedro Proença assumed the direction of that body with the support of the dragons, according to Vieira.

“Once there was a meeting between me, Pinto da Costa, Júlio Mendes [antigo presidente do V. Guimarães], António Salvador, Domingos Soares de Oliveira and Antero Henrique. No one knew that we had met. In this conversation I told the president of FC Porto: ‘The resolution of the League happens to both of us. Neither FC Porto nor Benfica can have people in the governing bodies of the League. The president chooses whoever he wants, but cannot belong to any of the clubs. The first name he said was Jorge Neto. I said: ‘President, this is a Porto player. If that’s the case, we’re done with the conversation, it’s not worth it. ‘ Then he told me to choose and I suggested Luís Duque. We walk in peace, a normal relationship between the two clubs. But one day, Pedro Proença says goodbye to the referees and says that he is going to run for the presidency of the League and that he had the support of FC Porto. This after six months [Proença substitui Duque ao fim de nove meses]. Since then I have not spoken to him again, I was not interested, “he explained, highlighting that he maintains a formal relationship with Pinto da Costa, when necessary, giving the example of the meeting they had with António Costa to talk about football and the issue of football. pandemic.

“At the request of the president of the FPF, given the problems of the pandemic, we decided to meet with the prime minister and we were the three presidents of the big companies and everything went well. I spoke normally with Pinto da Costa. the other side is not fulfilled, it is not worth it ”.