If you open a Portuguese newspaper this week, you’ll see four clubs getting most of the attention: Benfica, Sporting, Porto and Rangers.
As the Dragons face Steven Gerrard’s side in the Europa League this week, all the outlets have several stories about the game.
Newspaper A Bola made a short interview with Pedro Caixinha. The Portuguese boss has made it clear he loved his time in Glasgow, even though it didn’t last long.
He had some advice for Porto, not speaking a lot of tactics, but mostly warning them that playing at Ibrox won’t be easy.
“Rangers fans are more fanatical and dedicated than the English,” Caixinha told A Bola. “It’s a unique feeling, hard to explain but contagious. They are staunch, a little like the image of what happens at FC Porto.”
Speaking of a specific player, Caixinha praised the Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos. To describe him, he used the word ‘craque’, which means a really great player.
“He’s a craque, besides being technically strong, he’s very brave in the clash with the defenders, he’s an athlete that I admire a lot and I still keep in touch with him”
A Bola writes that at the time Caixinha was there, the Rangers dressing room was divided between the Scottish, the English and the foreign players. That’s why things didn’t work out very well.
Caixinha talked about the job interview he had at the club: “There is a clear screening in British football, not everyone has the skills to train there. Competence is taken seriously.
“It was an interesting career challenge, perhaps because it was the most media covered club I ever trained. The stadium surroundings are unique. And Celtic derbies are something phenomenal.”
