Sporting celebrated 115 years yesterday and the party was held on several fronts, from inaugurations and tributes to the launch of new equipment, but the highlight was Frederico Varandas’ speech.
“It’s on days like these, when I wake up and come to ceremonies like these, that I feel small, so small, when faced with the history of this great club, and it’s on days like these that I remember responsibility, but also great pride. , which I have in my hands, this mission to serve Sporting. Because this should and should always be the mission of the president of Sporting», so began the speech of the leonine leader, in the auditorium Artur Agostinho, in Alvalade, and
Addressing the Sporting world, he took stock of the mandate. “It looked like 30, but it was three years. I like to remember the 112th anniversary, the saddest in history: everything was sad, pessimistic and many predicted a very difficult future for the club and today we are living the happiest anniversaries in the club’s history. And looking at this path, in these three years, no one has won more than Sporting, in football and in sports. For years, I heard that Sporting clung to sports to hide that football eluded them. Today we are very proud to cling to basketball, table tennis, futsal, judo and other sports, but also football. On this journey, no tycoon or partner arrived who injected millions. Have we lowered the budget in football? Yes, we downloaded. Did we lower the budget in the modalities? Yes, we downloaded. Did we win? Yes, we won. We won by competence, rigor and commitment to training, we lowered budgets but we won Sporting’s future. We lowered budgets but invested a lot in the club», he stressed.
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