“Today, at the age of 35, I continue to do the same on the pitch. I always want more, more goals and more assists. With age, goals change. Playing in the Europa League and the Champions League gave me the possibility to grow, to be who I am today, and to always want to win was something that this club taught me. The only thing I had in my mind was to put this shirt back on, to be happy again where I had already been very happy. I just had that thought in my head,” he said.
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At Benfica, he re-found Rui Costa in a very different role than he had in his first spell at the club. From teammate to president.
“Benfica is my home in Europe, that’s where I arrived, where I really became a player. I had the possibility to play with Rui Costa, which means I’m old… I played alongside him and now I have him as president,” he shot back with a laugh.
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