When introduced as a sports coach in March 2020, Ruben Amorim set himself the task of rebuilding Leo’s team, taking into account the young people who at the Academy were looking for opportunities in Team A. Without hesitation and without fear of failure, In the same year he laid the foundations what will become the champion’s national team in 2020/2021, taking advantage of youngsters such as Gonzalo Inacio, Nunu Mendes, Mateus Nunez and Thiago Tomas, and also tried Eduardo Quaresma (meanwhile grew up in Tondel) and Joelson (assigned to Basel) …
Now there are even more young people in line to become Amorim’s new boys. The Academia de Alcochete is full of players dreaming of being in Sporting’s first team. Some are already on the cusp of the elite, training exclusively with the main squad or working very close to it, even if the competition takes place in one of the minor teams – Bês, U-23 or even U-19, especially when UEFA Youth League games arrive. … Diego Callay, Gonzalo Estevez, Flavio Nazinho, Dario Essugo and Thiago Ferreira are five small lions in the oven preparing to become future lions with high manes.
Of the five, there is one that is at a higher level, curiously the youngest in this handful of lion pearls: Dario Essugo.
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