It hasn’t been invented yet but there should be a watch just for that. To set the timing. The alarm would ring and you already knew it was time.
As football is a moment in time, only in this universe would the list of clients be inexhaustible, guaranteeing a fabulous profit for the manufacturer of magic pointers.
Especially because it is a luxurious habit to offer watches whenever there is a crisis in the locker room, a special occasion to celebrate, a farewell to celebrate or an apology to buy.
10 years ago Cristiano Ronaldo, in the Real Madrid squad, popularized the fashion, still today occasionally (nor could it be otherwise) followed by names like Erling Haaland or Anatoly Trubin.
Few professionals in the world will benefit from so many conditions to appreciate the advantages of a right time, let’s face it. An elite striker is constantly challenged to appear at the ideal moment to score a goal. A top goalkeeper has to understand when to step out, make the save and even vomit his anguish when the referee signals a penalty.
Only presidents and coaches are more qualified than them, who are very used to making decisions on a daily basis that affect the lives of many people. This is in theory, because in practice it won’t be like that, accumulated experience is not always a good advisor.
Pinto da Costa (PC) has already offered several watches and has been awarded many others, but at the right time, when he needed more than ever to understand that his presidential era had come to an end, he pretended not to hear the tick of resignation.
It doesn’t have to do with age, nor does it have to do with intelligence. It happens to anyone, especially those who have countless dedication to causes. Rúben Amorim didn’t want to miss his flight to London a week ago and only realized much later that he shouldn’t have made the trip at this stage of the championship.
In the opposite sense, Sérgio Conceição found the timing of the contract renewal in his own right and, despite having hastened to confess that he is willing to explain to the millisecond the reasons for this discovery, the truth is that he left his comfort zone and He made a bed where one cannot now lie. Which in no way undermines the freedom of expression that was granted to him from the outset.
From 1982 to 5000
The FC Porto coach had every right to take a stand and make his preference for list A clear.
Firstly, by obedience to characteristic courage and directness. As he never hid his friendship with the deposed leader and very
minus the debt of gratitude contracted many years ago and reinforced in 2017, the “new Pedroto” had a strong and natural presence in the pre-27th of April.
Sérgio, from an early age, provided all the signals to the blue and white associative mass. From the prolonged testimony at the press conference previewing the game with Antwerp to going to the Coliseum to seal with a kiss their support for the leader who had been in power since 1982, any public demonstration was unequivocal, no one needed to take a course to understand the movements between the lines.
Those who still had doubts about the former player’s voting decision were left completely clear from this Sunday, which marked the presentation of Pinto da Costa’s re-candidacy.
By confirming, 24 hours before the elections, the renewal of the contract, the manager who guided Invicta to 10 trophies simply made official a position that was far from obscure. Each Porto member who contributed to a record vote learned last Saturday that they would vote between André Villas-Boas (AVB) and the duo formed by Pinto da Costa and Sérgio Conceição.
In consideration of what is public, it would be completely naive to frame the extension of the relationship with the coach in any other context than that which reflects the final and most desperate measure of the “president of all presidents” and just over 5000 members.
Conceição agreed to be in the photo, accepted to be part of this latest electoral coup and, considering what happened in recent months, it would be surprising to say the least if she accepted a possible invitation from Villas-Boas to continue in command of the team.
From 33 to 19950
If he had opted for a different and equally respectable conduct, maintaining equidistance to the candidates, without taking sides, assuming himself solely and solely as a club employee, the coach would have been free and without any kind of moral commitment that would prevent him from embarking. in the project that is in the head of Saturday’s great triumphant.
This, of course, assumes that Luís André himself (to quote someone…), together with Andoni Zubizarreta and Jorge Costa, have no other plans for what was once his dream chair.
The young president, when that same chair had not yet cooled down, indicated to the most attentive that these things about the recommended timing for moving to another were already causing him a suspicious awakening. As Chelsea coach and Golden Dragon and Coach of the Year, in 2011 AVB offered PC an exclusive watch, which was replicated on the market in only 33 units.
Thanks to a partnership with a well-known Swiss brand, Villas-Boas had his initials engraved on this chronograph, placed on Jorge Nuno’s arm on Monday the 24th.
On October 24, 2011, for some a date very far from a revolutionary vote, Pinto da Costa was certainly not impressed with the €19,950 present and never imagined that almost 13 years later he would be forced to give evidence having only 19.5% of the votes on the display.
Of course, the world record holder for trophies, possessing an unparalleled collection, can today summarize everything in numbers. Everything except a clearing of the clock between Sérgio Conceição and André Villas-Boas.
If you watch this with your own eyes, Jorge Nuno could be timing personified. Unable to forgive, unable to come up with a price for the only defeat that would mark his pulse.
