Lions set out foundations of new football school

Luís Bernardo, administrator who coordinates the communication and public affairs company working with the club, was in Dili last weekend, where he had the opportunity to give a shirt signed by the Sporting Clube de Portugal president Bruno de Carvalho to the leaders of Sporting Clube de Timor: Jaime Santos, leader of Sporting Affiliate number 85, and Zacarias da Costa, former Timor Minister of Foreign Affairs and the current president of the Sporting Clube de Timor General Assembly.

The occasion also served to set out the foundations for a partnership looking at the creation of a new Sporting football school, soon to open in Dili in what will be totally renovated facilitates that will also house futsal, basketball and tennis.

Timor leaders visit Estádio Alvalade, Museum and Academy

The East Timor Secretary of State, Leovigildo Hornai, led a committee in a visit to Sporting Clube de Portugal this week, with the objective on building up a link between Timor and the Alvalade club.

Sporting’s vice-president for sport, Vicente Moura, was on hand to welcome the visitors. “This is part of our drive to bring sporting closer to together with certain nations. Today is a concrete example and we already have an affiliate in Timor. The Secretary of State for Youth and sport visited us and wanted to learn more about what we do at Sporting. We could soon have in place protocols to strengthen our link with East Timor”, said the Alvalade vice-president after the visit.

Board member for expansion and supporters’ clubs, Bruno Mascarenhas, also commented on the day’s interaction: “We know that East Timor is creating the infrastructure to invest in sport. They have a young population and with the history we have and our affiliate Sporting Clube de Timor, it makes sense to have the Secretary of State with us here.”

Leovigildo Hornai also spoke about the visit: “The idea of this visit was to see how the Sporting Academy is developing. This club has quality and it is a great stadium. From an East Timor perspective, we wanted to see if we can develop more cooperation in the future. In Timor we want to carry on investing in football and promoting our young talent. We will look at developing a relationship with Sporting for the development of our clubs.”