Businessman Nuno Lobo started collecting signatures this week to run for president of FC Porto, number two of the national football association, whose elections will take place in 2024. The candidate who was defeated three years ago was unveiled this Friday.
“Under the motto ‘FC Porto leader of its own destiny’, our candidacy started this week by collecting signatures for the 2024 elections. We are and will always be for transparency and rigor. That is why we are finalizing a program that guarantees a better future for all of us.” FC Porto,” he said in a letter to the media.
Nuno Lobo ran for the presidency of the “dragons” in the last ballot held in June 2020, coming third with 4.91% of the vote, behind Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, who was running for the 15th consecutive term. reappointed. Jose Fernando Rio.
“FC Porto is our love and that is why we refrain from commenting on the Mexican soap operas of recent weeks, which seem to us inappropriate with the management and care of a big club,” he stressed, at a time when the ‘blues’ and whites’ guide Boavista and Sporting among the leaders of the I Liga, all with 10 points, after four rounds.
In a week marked by criticism from Rui Moreira, President of the City Council of Porto and member of the Supreme Council of FC Porto, of the “dragões” coach, Sérgio Conceição, businessman Nuno Lobo stressed that the club “above all and everyone stands.” .
“We refuse to comment on principle on facts and/or comments involving political agents in the city who use their positions to voluntarily and pointlessly justify their appearance in the national press for their own personal pleasure,” he added.
Source: DN
