Pepe and his anecdote with a legend from Porto: “He always brought me home bread …”

198 games for Porto, one Champions League, one UEFA Cup, eight Leagues, five Cups, one Intercontinental and seven Super Cups. This is the record of an entire Porto legend, Jorge Costa.

Born in the same Portuguese city and raised in the quarry of the dragoes, Jorge Costa became a true Porto legend of the 90s and early 2000s, when they lived through a golden age under the command of Jose Mourinho. Although he spent most of his career there, he also wore the shirts of Peñafiel, Marítimo and Charlton on loan and that of Standard de Liege, for which he signed when he was released in 2006 and in which he retired.

The now Farense coach was a respected guy on and off the green and, on UEFA.com, Pepe tells how he looked after the newcomers. “Jorge, so you can see the dimension of the person he is, he was a neighbor of mine in Lavra. He had a bakery and insisted on bringing me the bread. I took the bread because I didn't want it to come out too much, I wanted me to stay focused. It was a way to pamper myself and, in some way, protect myself and help me integrate into the city and the club “, says the former Real Madrid center, who shared a dressing room with Costa for two years when he was signed by Porto.

As a veteran, Costa had his privileges, which were most curious. According to Pepe in this interview, he had his own bathroom in the changing room. “In one of the locker room toilets there was a photo of him and no one but him could use that bathroom. Nobody could go in there, his photo was there and we all respected him, “said the center-back with a laugh.