4h. Death of Pinto da Costa. André Villas-Boas criticizes Sporting and Benfica's silence

The president of FC Porto criticizes Sporting and Benfica for not yet speaking out about the death of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. André Villas-Boas will not be present at the funeral.

It is true that every club in the Primeira Liga issued a note of regret over the death of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, with the exception of Benfica and Sporting.

FC Porto issued a long statement this Monday to thank the “countless messages of solidarity” following the death of Pinto da Costa, taking the opportunity to send a 'barb' to rivals Benfica and Sporting, due to the silence surrounding the death of the former president of the Blues and Whites, last Saturday, at the age of 87. The city club Invicta stressed that it had registered the silence of the “management of some clubs, unworthy of the instit…

Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa died at 87 years old. Villas-Boas criticized the stance of the rivals who did not offer condolences. Former club players also expressed displeasure

After the death of the former president of Porto Jorge Pinto da Costa, neither of the two Lisbon clubs, Benfica and Sporting Portugal, reacted. The current president André Villas-Boas claimed that he did not find this "normal".

The silence of rivals Benfica and Sporting since Saturday in the face of the death of Pinto da Costa, former president of FC Porto, was criticized on Sunday by the leader of the 'dragões', André Villas-Boas, upon the return of the Algarve soccer team. “In the face of such an enormous loss for the Porto nation, we cannot help regretting that up to now no condolences have been addressed, neither to me personally, nor to FC Porto. Tomorrow [today] …