Lila Durão: “We’re more than ready to win back trophies” | OneFootball

With eight new faces, coming from "very good and very professional contexts", among the 14 athletes at Miguel Coelho's disposal, the FC Porto women's volleyball team kicked off the pre-season with "a different training" at Madalena beach, where they began to form "a very united group" that will be "a family throughout the entire season".

"Super excited" and "very happy" to start her third campaign in blue and white, Lila Durão felt her teammates were "more than ready" and with "a lot of willingness to work" to "win everything there is to win". "Our priority is the championship and the Cup and we want to deliver both trophies to the Museum at the end of the year," assured the distributor eager to "show what the mystique of FC Porto is" to her new teammates.

Training outside the pavilion"Since the whole team arrived it was almost as if we had known each other for some time, we all got along very well and this is a different training than we are used to, inside the Dragon Arena, it forces us to create new connections and that brings us even closer. It makes us be much more companions of each other, because it is a more difficult challenge than what we start in the pavilion. This helps us to create a very united group and to be a family throughout the entire season".

New signings"The thought behind the construction of the team and the choice of athletes started right there and we have players who come from very good, very professional contexts, who know how to be and do what is needed to build a team. This has been something very natural, it was not talked about or thought about, very natural connections are quickly created and that is also a very beautiful thing."

Third season in blue and white"I feel super excited and I am very happy. It is true that little time has passed, but very positive energies have already been transmitted and we are more than ready to return and reclaim what we so desire, which is the championship and the cups. There is a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of happiness and a lot of willingness to work."

Demand on the horizon"I think everyone received the same message from the moment they signed a contract with FC Porto. The goal is to win everything there is to win. We have the championship and the Portugal Cup as the main fronts and then we also have the CEV Cup, which will not be put aside and which will be faced with great ambition and as a very difficult competition, but our priority is the championship and the Cup and we want to deliver both trophies to the Museum at the end of the year."

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