He Cadiz “will have to take advantage” of next Saturday that the Real Madrid is thirteen points behind the leader in Santander League and that its main objective is in the UEFA Champions League or at the end of Copa del Reyobserved this Tuesday Miguel Angel Portugal, Former player of the white team and the Cádiz squad.
Portugal, 67 years old and who played for Real Madrid between 1979 and 1983, with a period on loan to Cádiz in the 81-82 campaign, told EFE that next Saturday’s match at the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium (9:00 p.m.) brings “nostalgia”.
The athlete born in Quintanilla de las Viñas (Burgos) declared that the team led by Sergio González gave the “knock” that “they needed to reaffirm themselves” with their victory on Sunday at the home of Betis (0-2).
Portugal pointed out that the team coached by the Italian Charles Ancelotti“perhaps I will look more” on Saturday at the Champions League and the cup final against Osasuna, although “without ceasing to be Real Madrid, because they always go out to win.”
From his time in the white team, the man from Burgos recalled having won LaLiga Santander and the Copa del Rey in his first season, in addition to what happened in the 82-83 campaign, in which they came with title options in five competitions, being runners-up in all: “We could have had a historic season,” he said.
Of the six months he spent in Cádiz, Portugal keeps in memory a victory against Sevilla (2-0), in which he scored one of the goals, a stage in which he values the “friendship” with teammates among whom he named Pepe Mejías, Antonio Bermúdez Amarillo, the Argentine Hugo Vaca and Manuel Cosano ‘Mané’, as well as Juan José Jiménez ‘Sandokán’, a defender with whom he also joined the Real Madrid squad.
“The most important thing is the legacy that you are leaving in each place, since a small footprint remains and that always fills you with satisfaction,” he said.
Miguel Ángel Portugal looks at Cádiz waiting for an opportunity
Miguel Ángel Portugal, in his time as coach.
During his time as a footballer, Miguel Ángel Portugal also played for Burgos, Rayo Vallecano, Castellón, Valladolid and Córdoba, among other teams.
Once his boots were hung up, in Spain he was technical secretary of Real Madrid and sports director of Córdoba. On the bench, he led the Cordoba team, as well as Castilla, Toledo, Racing Santander, Valladolid and Granada, among other clubs.
All this gave him “a lot of experience” to lead on the pitch, what he “likes” the most, he said, or to assume a management department again.
Portugal claimed to be “pending something” to return to training in Bolivia, where he was champion of the Clausura Tournament in 2013 at the head of the Bolivar club, from La Paz.
With several participations in the Copa Libertadores or the Copa Sudamericana, the man from Burgos coached two other Bolivian clubs, Jorge Wilstermann (from Cochabamba) and Royal Pari (Santa Cruz de la Sierra); and also to the Brazilian Atlético Paranaense.
The Constantine from Algeria and the Indian Delhi Dynamos complete their stays in the foreign benches, experiences together with the South Americans that have given them the opportunity to “get to know another type of football”, he asserted.
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