New Football Director of Sporting already preparing the new season

New Football Director of Sporting already prepares the new season, doesn't guarantees Carvalhal, and meets his ex-team (FC Porto) already on Sunday, in Alvalade.

José Eduardo Bettencourt, accompanied by his team-manager Miguel Salema Garção, introduced officially today, Costinha as new football director of Sporting.

Francisco da Costa (Costinha, for football) is the member number 38,402 of Sporting, and recently grew the family of the Alvalade's Club, to send their two sons as partners, who were allocated the numbers 97,018 and 97,019.
"I want to help Sporting achieve victories," confessed FC Porto's former player in the presentation ceremony.

The new director of football said that "it was with great pride" that became part of the project Sporting, led by people he has great esteem, and who "want the best for the club"; and that from now on "winning is the word we have to have as an ideal," said the director.

About his new position, Costinha said it would be a person "very dedicated, but I will not be talking every day. I am a staunch Sportinguist, sick, and I feel that passion every day, I feel the family together. It's that what this club deserves, that's what the shareholders deserve. So I will work to help make Sporting a winning team in the near future. "

Asked if he would count on the next season, with the current coaching staff, led by Carlos Carvalhal, the director recalled that "the present is called Carvalhal and the preparation of meeting with FC Porto:
"It would be disrespectful to be talking other things now. Carvalhal has my support and the management support to do his work. What will happen in the future, we'll see after."

The president of Sporting: "Costinha meets all the requirements to help us be stronger and to triumph. I stress that his willingness to come to Sporting was unequivocal. He always wanted to represent the Club of his passion."