Sergio Conceição, coach of FC Porto, gathered this Saturday to pay tribute to the team of Les, the club to which he was loaned by the Dragons in his second season as a senior, who won in 1994/1995 2nd League.
The technician was asked if Lesa had a thirst for victory with winning the first title. “That will to win is built, it comes little by little from everyone, then it is reinforced by all the vicissitudes of life. I can’t deny that everything difficult that happened to me in life was important for me to have the character that I have today and be the person that I am deep down. I admit it sometimes with some exaggeration, but it’s part of who I am as a person,” he said.
Sergio Conceição recognized the great importance in his life of Joaquim Teixeira, his coach at the time.
“I was lucky that he was a coach at a very important stage in my life. In a difficult moment, according to everything that is known at the family level, he was a very important person, as a coach he was weak (laughs), as a man continues to be a spectacular personality. I also caught him at Porto, he was an assistant to António Oliveira, he was also with me in the national team, we always had a very strong contact, affection and friendship. I have followed his family and personal journey, he is a friend. And friends, no matter what they do, always remain friends, the most important people after the family,” he commented.
