Frederico Varandas heard Sporting win the ultimate in Afghanistan | Abola.pt | Abola.pt

In 2008, two objectives from Rodrigo Tiuí in additional time gave the Lions the benefit over FC Porto, with the present Lions president on a mission

The story shouldn’t be new: it dates again to 2008 and was already instructed by the president Sports activities to the membership newspaper. But it surely’s all the time value recovering, as a result of it goes again to the time when Frederico Varandas was an official physician of the Nationwide Pressure deployed in Afghanistan. Lieutenant Frederico Varandas. And it additionally refers back to the ultimate spherical of Portugal Cup and for one Sports activities–FC Porto.

The lions received, after additional time, with two objectives from Brazil Rodrigo Tiuí and Varandas tells how he skilled that sport in a really particular method, even from a distance.

When Tiuí determined

“We had been in Kandahar, in the midst of the desert, with solely the Taliban and I requested if we might get the report. That day we had been very alert as a result of the Afghan secret companies warned us about an assault that we would endure. We evacuated everybody and solely those that had been wanted to combat had been left, together with the physician and the nurse. We left the tents as a result of we might assault them and we stayed in a single place, refugees, quiet and in enforced silence. No gentle, nothing. I went to my bag, with the sport virtually beginning, I picked up the radio and after a couple of minutes we had been listening to Antena 1. Of the 130 males, half of them had been there subsequent to me listening to the a report. I usually say, for the primary time, that Afghans and Taliban heard the roar of the lion. I’ll always remember that day,” he instructed the membership’s newspaper Frederico Varandas.