Domingo Soares Interview

[idefi]

I spent a few hours translating extracts from the interview by Benfica magazine Mística with SAD Administrator Domingo Soares.

It's very long so click here to read the full article. Below is the start of the report.

What was the scenario you encountered when you arrived at Benfica?
There wasn't much of a surprise because Luis Filipe Vieira was already working as the SAD president. What did strike me was Manuel Vilarinho's (Benfica president at the time) way of commanding the club.

It's necessary that people know the catastrophic state the club was in after Vale e Azevedo left, the SAD (Sociadade Anónima Desportiva) had lost 50% of its social capital in the first year and it was technically bankrupt.

I analised that during the first years of Manuel Vilarinho there was a lack of control in which there were no bases of sustaining the club in the long run. The work we did from there was extremely difficult and only after some time we created a financial structure that would recover the club from ultimate debt. [...]

[Ferreira29]

Well done!

[idefi]

Thanks

[nietzsche]

good job