Official
Benfica has made its new coach official. It will be Bruno Lage to lead the Lusitanian Eagles. The coach has signed a contract until 2026 and was presented to the press today: “With what spirit do I return? With that of someone who returns and wants to win. Tell me about a coach who has neither won nor lost. If we look at the average of years and titles, Bruno Lage’s is perhaps very similar to the others. My son will want to visit him one day, but I have never wanted to interfere and I have never taken him to the Benfica Museum.
How do you see the team? If I remember correctly, my idea was always a short, competitive and balanced squad, with two players per role, which would give me the opportunity to play in different ways, looking at the squad and being able to change the system and dynamics and be competitive inside and out. And that’s how I see it.
The most important thing is that, regardless of the departures, we can look at the squad and feel that it has been created, adapted and competitive for what awaits us. I don’t know them, but when you see an athlete leave home it is always a source of satisfaction, for the work that has been done at the base and for the way in which the players reach the first team”.