Amarante is the only survivor outside the professional championships of the Portuguese Cup and hopes to face a great player of Portuguese football in the round of 16 of the competition.
“That is what Amarante wants. It is our intention. We know that reaching the final and winning the competition is extremely difficult for a club the size of Amarante and, therefore, we would like it to be a great celebration of the Cup, that we could Playing against a great team. I think it was a great joy for the team, for the fans and for the city,” he says. TSF the president of the club, Ricardo Ribeiro.
To reach the round of 16 of the Portuguese Cup, Amarante beat Paredes 2-0. In the previous rounds, the Amarantinos had eliminated Sertanense and Academica. Now, expect a big one, but preparing for a game of this size won’t be easy.
“Amarante, in terms of facilities, has a stand. It is a stand of excellence that really allows us to receive any team. We have this light adversity and, eventually, if the draw favors us, it is something we will have.” “We have to consider it even with the municipality, because the stadium is municipal, so we can try to understand the possibility or not of the match being held here,” says the club president.
Still, the goal is to host a big one in Amarante: “For us this dream makes sense with a home game. If we have to play away, it will be really a disappointment for us, but we would very much like to play this game at home, with our public, with our fans. “It would be different, if that were the case.”
The draw for the round of 16 of the highest competition in Portuguese football will take place on Wednesday at the Cidade do Futebol, in Oeiras, and the team will meet again to see what their fate will be, just as happened in the last round: “In “The last round we got together, we watched the draw all together and this time we are going to do it again, we still don’t know the place very well, but we are going to watch the draw all together again.”
Amarante is the current leader of Serie B of the Portuguese Championship, with eight wins and two draws in ten games. Adding the three already played in the Portuguese Cup, the Amarantinos have not lost any of the 13 games they have played this season.
“Our athletes and our technical team have been true heroes. There have been 13 games without knowing the taste of defeat, with very good numbers, both in goals scored and goals conceded. It has been their merit to have worked so hard to give us these joys.” “, considers Ricardo Ribeiro.
Amarante is the only club in the semi-professional championship that still competes in the Portuguese Cup. In addition, there are six clubs in the II Liga and nine in the top category of Portuguese football, which includes the four main Portuguese clubs today.
Source: TSF
