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In an interview with A BOLA, Nuno Santos talks about the common past with Rúben Amorim, at rival Benfica, and his total dedication to Sporting.
– Do you remember being at Benfica with Rúben Amorim? Who gave you the advice? Did you see that he was going to train?
– Yes, I could see. He was a player who, when he received someone from team B or the formation, was very playful, a group player, who everyone could count on, and he was very funny, he received everyone in the best way.
– Do you think that this relationship with him led you to follow your career more closely and ended up now leading to your signing for Sporting?
– It may be that Rúben Amorim is absolutely sure that he has been with me for some time, otherwise I would not have signed for Sporting. But he has been a coach for a few years and that may have been a reason for signing me.
– And how is Rúben Amorim as coach? Is that all you say?
– He is a coach who motivates the team a lot, a coach who likes what he does a lot, a coach who lives all this and is not going to play, he always goes to work. As we have all seen, Mr. Rúben Amorim really has great talent. He never changes his way of playing, he is a coach focused on work and that is visible to everyone.
– Did he call you during the process of going to Sporting?
– [risos] They all spoke to me, as is normal.
– But was it an important piece?
– Yes too. Because he was here, he was an important piece for my arrival at Sporting.
– Like Amorim, he spent time at Benfica. And it started at FC Porto … There were less positive reactions for that …
– I answer now: I don’t care and if I see it, it even gives me more strength the next day to train or play. Everyone has their club and everyone fights for their club, but I don’t even care, the next day I will work the same and continue my work, which is what my club pays me, it is not [risos]?
– Last season, in Rio Ave, he was sent off with Benfica and threatened on social media. How do you think football can be pacified in this sense?
– I think it will be difficult, because it is always like this, there are always people who like your club a lot, it is normal that … I mean, it is not normal for me what happened to me, but each one has their own way of I think and react the way I did because I don’t think what people did was right. But there is no problem and I will always face it in the best way, that is what I did, clarifying everything in social networks, because I know that people have seen it and whoever loves me and who believes in me and knows me knows that I always am faithful to the club where I am.
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