The SC Braga coach, Artur Jorge, admitted on Tuesday that the club’s objective is to be national champion and asks that the team have ambition throughout the championship.
“I also want to be a national champion. I go back to talk about expectations and I only see that we had the event that we had a week ago in our store in Braga and what people, the fans, who approached us talked about the most was that. They ask, because, in fact, we have to look up.
Even so, Artur Jorge knows that he is not “alone in the race” and that he will have “high-quality rivals, rivals used to what is required to play for the title.” “Probably a lot of people are going to be happy that we say this, but always in the sense of criticizing us in a bit, because we may or may not be distant, but that feels exactly the same,” he says.
For the SC Braga coach, the key word is “ambition”: “It doesn’t bother me at all how important we are, because that’s part of the ambition, of the goal and, therefore, we will never be the only team that can say at this moment: ‘We are going to try to be national champions.’ At this moment we have to think big. We have to think upwards.”
From a personal point of view, Artur Jorge had proposals from the European and Arab markets, but he chose to stay in Braga.
“I stayed because of the dream of the Champions League, I stayed for the project and I also stayed because of the passion I have for the club and because I feel loved within the club itself,” he guaranteed.
SC Braga leaves for the 2023/2024 season, after a third place finish last season. Braga debuts in the I Liga at home against Famalicão and, at the beginning of this season, they will have another challenge, which is qualifying for the Champions League. In the 3rd qualifying round, the Minho warriors face Backa Topola, from Serbia, and if they overcome this challenge, they will still have to go through the play-offs to join Benfica and FC Porto in the group stage of the competition.
Source: TSF
