Rui Alves announced his intention to run again for the leadership of Nacional, in the elections scheduled for June 17.
This was revealed this afternoon, on the sidelines of a reception for the Quinta Vigía football team, by the president of the regional government, Miguel Albuquerque, after their promotion to the Primera División.
The historic president in black and white admitted that this change in plans (he had previously said that he would not run again) has something to do with what he calls a “paradigm change” in the context of support for professional football, promised by Miguel Albuquerque. If he is elected. And also because, as he points out, “there are no candidates and the club cannot remain empty,” stressing: “In the name of the love that the members have for me, I will reapply.”
Furthermore, Rui Alves highlighted that his criticism of the support of football by the regional government was a way to “awaken political power to an unavoidable reality, which is the importance of professional football within the framework of independent construction”, as well as the fact that “the current financing framework makes the life of clubs “Competitively impossible.”
In response to a question about his financial expectations for the club, Rui Alves admitted that the support amounting to three million euros, as the club received at the beginning of the century, would be to his satisfaction “in the beginning.”
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