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Luís Filipe Vieira has already said that Rui Costa “represents the future” of Benfica, something that makes the now administrator of SAD proud. In an interview with ‘Tribuna Expresso’, the former player of the Eagles denies the criticisms of those who say that he is being used by Luís Filipe Vieira and recalls the route of departure and return to Luz and the “millionaire contract” to which he turned his back .
“I have been actively present, on a daily basis, in 19 Benfica titles in the last 12 years. Nobody can take that away from me. Nobody saw me in the newspapers boasting that I was the one who named or hired this or that player. And people think what, that in the 12 years that I am here there were no players, good or bad, who went through my decision or at least my advice to the president and administration? Do you think I’m here just because? Benfica just like fan, as I have been, because what makes me here is only the love I have for this club, because otherwise I would probably never have returned to Benfica, as people calculate. I left a millionaire contract in Milan so I could return to Benfica, signing blank. I often hear about my salary as administrator, etc., but my salary as administrator is a tenth of what I could still be earning abroad, except that people have little choice of that. I’m going in the answer, but That’s why I usually say that they can judge me as a good or bad professional, whatever they want, but my passion for the club, they can never judge, because it hurts me a lot. Today, fortunately, thanks to my football career, I have a comfortable financial situation, but I remember that in 1994, when I did not go to the rival to win a tenth against Benfica, I did not hesitate. And when I could have gone to Barcelona, for what was considered the best team in the world, I ended up going to Fiorentina, to a team that had just been promoted in the division, because Benfica got more out of it. And when I returned to Benfica, as I said, I did not have what I had abroad, because I had one more year of contract, with the possibility of renewing another year or going to Arabias or wherever I wanted to go, because at that time it was a bit like now, with the player at the end of his career who has these open markets. I even had that possibility on my last day here at Benfica as a player. So if I had to do all these values, I would have to work at Benfica for another 150 years. So don’t come down these roads, because it hurts a lot. In other words, if I am here it is because of the passion of being here and the conviction that I can help the club. And I will continue as long as I can help Benfica. This very week I heard from people who thought they were using me, people who may be using me for their campaigns. I can even be used here and there by Benfica, but it is for the good of the club. I say again: I always put the interests of the club before my own, because if I put mine in front of Benfica, it was a long time since I was here, even because of my private life. Because this is still a massacre, whether for work or image. I often thought about leaving, not from Benfica, but from football. To be able to enjoy my life, my family. I made a career like I did and could be enjoying life however I want. But every time I think about it, my desire to continue serving Benfica is greater than that. And he even questions my family, because, in the end, I end up spending all my family time with football and Benfica. But the passion of being at Benfica is always greater than that of the rest, ”he said.
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