Mariana Cabral will continue as coach of the Sporting women’s soccer team, after having renewed her relationship with the lions for two more seasons this Tuesday, to which she has been linked for seven seasons.
The 35-year-old coach started in the youth category, led the B team and two seasons ago took charge of the main team, which led him to win the Portuguese Cup and the Super Cup last year.
After the transfer ceremony, in statements to Sporting TV, Mariana Cabral thanked “the vote of confidence” and recognized the “extremely high demands” in a club “that is very big”.
“The season has not been as we wanted, but we believe a lot, the club also believes and I believe that this harmony of wills will continue to help us all grow together,” said the coach.
Confident in the “growth of the project”, Mariana Cabral continued: “We know what the strengths and weaknesses are, what we have to improve and where the project needs to evolve and grow. This will happen.”
“There is a lot of desire for this to happen and Sporting have contributed immensely to women’s football in Portugal over the last eight years, growing in all categories and levels. This will continue to happen in a very evident way and we are here to contribute to that.” added.
Valuing the players trained at Sporting is something that “will continue to happen,” said Mariana Cabral. “Sporting has a formation that is the best in the country and the project will continue to be that: valuing our young people, the team and the club, is part of Sporting’s DNA,” she said.
“Sporting is always a candidate to win all the competitions in which it is. With that thought we go, believing that we are going to do everything in our power so that, as a team, we can win competitions. at the top”, finished off the coach of the ‘lionesses’.
Sporting finished the women’s league in second place, nine points behind three-time champion Benfica, having ‘lost’ in the quarterfinals of the Portuguese Cup and in the semifinals of the League Cup, against ‘the reds’, with whom they also lost the Super Cup.
Source: TSF
