Pedro Baltazar: Sporting pillar has improved, I wasn't a fan at first | OneFootball

Pedro Baltazar gives high praise to Frederico Varandas. In an exclusive interview for our newspaper, the former candidate for the presidency of Sporting and former shareholder of the club expresses satisfaction with the work done by the management, despite acknowledging that he was a critic of the club's top leader when he started in 2018.

“I was not initially a supporter of President Frederico Varandas. Several years have passed, and the truth is that after a somewhat inexperienced start, the results speak for themselves, that is, three-time champion. During Frederico Varandas' terms, Sporting has only achieved this feat in very distant times,” he begins by saying.

Next, Pedro Baltazar spoke about the changes made during Frederico Varandas' presidency that he considers most important for Sporting: “The change in what I consider most important is also evident. It was necessary to intervene in the Stadium, and we always had a handicap compared to our rivals, as we filled the Stadium very few times. Now with these new conditions, the Stadium is always very full,” he points out.

Besides football, the work done in other sports was also praised: “Sporting's management is in a very positive place, even outside of football. In other sports, we have been fighting for titles until the end. This is in those more active sports: handball, volleyball, futsal, hockey…,” added the former candidate in the 2011 elections.

In conclusion, Pedro Baltazar showed that nothing could have predicted the winning atmosphere that is being experienced in Alvalade: “Winning brings a lot of people, brings more dynamics and it would have been difficult for me to anticipate our good positioning that Sporting is going through, whether in recent years, this last year, or now,” he concludes.

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