To a side the criticisms! Simao: "I see to a Barça strong"

The professional career of Simao Sabrosa (31-10-1979, Portugal) always saves lines devoted to the FC Barcelona. It landed in the city of Barcelona in 1999 with 19 years with the aim to play in the Barcelona picture of Figo, Rivaldo and Kluivert. The club paid 2.300 million pesetas (15 million euros), but that fast extreme, deep and with a big shot left two years, 69 parties and 4 goals afterwards to the Benfica, precisely the next rival in Europe.

It was in the Benfica where played seven years, and triumphed. It crossed with the Barça in the chambers of the Champions League 2005-2006, curiously with Koeman in the bench luso. Today day, the football has gone back them to cross as Simao is director of institutional relations of the Benfica and a defender of The Academy, The Masia Portuguese.

In interview with Sportive World, Simao answered to the comparisons between The Masia and the Academy of the Benfica: "there are a lot of comparisons yes. The Academy of the Benfica has fulfilled 15 years. We are súper happy with the work of the directors, the technicians and the formadores… Have gone out and follow going out players of a big level".

Likewise Simao rememoró what lived in the Masia: "Had a near field where trained and there was the Masia. Now you look and the Barça has a Sportive City very good. I agree me of Iniesta, that came to train and of the boys that slept there... Memory to Xavi".

On the crash between the Barcelona and the Benfica in Champions, the ex player analysed to both pictures: "they confront two teams that bet by the quarry. Two big teams of the football, two historical teams that respect a lot, two teams that want to win, that think of the same way".

"The truth is that the Benfica is well. We have not lost, we have marked a lot of goals and have fit few. It is where wants to be and where has to be, between the best", exposed Simao. It referred also to the actuality of the Barcelona: "The problems are not in the field. In the field there are two teams that want to win. The problems remain then backwards. Only listen the hymn of Champions puts you the skin of hen and does you forget everything".

The Barcelona that sees now is "a Barça historically strong. All know that the parties are difficult. It is a party of Champions and has good players", aseveró Simao. "Has good players and know what has happened. It went out Messi, went out Griezmann… The situation of the Barça do not know it, do not have a lot of information but look to the players of the Barça and have quality and capacity, goes to be a difficult party that the two want to win, a party to enjoy. We look to the Barça with the same historical dimension that always has had", added.

The youth of the Barcelona team

"The Barça always has had young, is truth that the Benfica has young and people with experience but the Barça also is balanced. It is Busquets, Hammer, Alba… players with personality and years in the football", explained the ex footballer.