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Wednesday, 02 May 2012 17:16 |
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Casanova, your pulling of the Salazar card demonstrates how little you know about Portuguese history. (And mind you that I don't support any of the Big Three).
I don't know where that story originated, but Salazar never supported Benfica. He was a Belenenses supporter and there were many cases of persecution of members of Benfica's direction board and they even had to change the anthem. I could go on with more clear examples (like Benfica fielding plenty of players from the colonies and being the only club in whose direction featured members of the political opposition), but you can search for yourself and avoid embarking on the false facts train next time.
It's also funny that if you're analyzing statistics to prove that fact, it would become clear that 14 out of the 18 League titles that Sporting won was during the Estado Novo. Do I think that Sporting was backed by Salazar to accomplish that? No. In the same way that the European titles that both Porto and Benfica won were not backed by referees or anything of that sort.
Credit should be given to where it is due. I don't agree with Pedro/SA downplaying the importance of titles such as the World Club Cup. Porto is, without question, the most successful Portuguese club ever and seems poised to go on collecting trophies during the next few years. Benfica should get rid of people like Luís Filipe Vieira and Jorge Jesus, who spend more time talking than accomplishing anything real.
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