The Porto announced this Monday that “it will take legal action” against the president of the Sporting CP, Frederico Varandasfor some statements he made about his counterpart at the blue and white club, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costawhom he called “active corrupter”.
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The club reported in a statement that the board of directors and the club itself Pinto da Costa made the decision to “take legal action” for the “false and insulting” statements of balconies.
“It is up to the Justice to evaluate serious and repeated actions of pure media pyromania,” says the Porto.
balconies participated on Sunday in an act of a rock of the Sporting CP in Carregal do Sal, in the center of Portugal, where he said that the presence of Pinto da Costa in Portuguese football it should have been “prohibited” decades ago.
“It is not necessary for the Portuguese Justice to say anything for us to know that Mr. Pinto da Costa is an active corrupter and someone who should have been banned from being a leader decades ago,” he said.
The president of Sporting CP referred specifically to the case ‘golden whistle‘, which he investigated since 2004 alleged cases of corruption and influence peddling in Portuguese football and in which Pinto da Costa he was exonerated.