Rui Costa

Yes.

Rui Costa was benched.

Rui Costa was benched and accepted the role off the bench and became productive off the bench.

Yeah, as Rogerio was saying, George Costa was also, is that the Costa that you're referring

to,

Not 15 or 16.

But no, when I think of it, I think of obviously the photo of Matarazzi and Rui Costa, which is iconic, as we've alluded to, obviously, in private.

And as a fan of shenanigans myself and volatility and hostile atmospheres, especially due to the Derby, The images for me are absolutely spectacular.

Spectacular.

He played for Inter Milan for like 50 games in Serie A. He's an attacking winger.

Didn't score a goal.

And then there's Rui Costa.

This is a really good player.

But I mean this would be my major kind of technical criticism of Zidane is that compared to other great number 10s I don't think he was a great passer.

I don't think if you look at those compilations I don't think you, you see the balls that, I don't know, Dennis Bergkamp played or Kevin De Bruyne played or Rui Costa played.

I think he was...

I mean, I n- I never thought he had a great partnership with any striker, so he only...

Rui Borges, in or out? For now, in.

We'll talk about Benfica, Rui Costa, of course, not happy with a lot of things, but Benfica at the end of the day did not win in the Dragon, and that's all that really everybody cares about.

We'll talk a little bit about, we'll touch on a lot of things, but I want to welcome back to my episode here.

I've not had him for a long time, and I was just apologizing to them.

And I believe they're also very upset about what's going on with the centralization of TV rights.

I don't know if you're familiar with all that controversy that I think I read.

The bottom line is Rui Costa is not a happy guy.

Rui Costa is not a happy guy.

E agora, gol!

Rui Costa goes, Rui Costa believes, he shoots the goal, he shoots, goal! Goal! Goal! Cristiano Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Goal! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Ronaldo!

From the José Batista podcast desk, this is episode number 118 of the Seleção podcast.

We, of course, are a proud partner of Portugal.net. And, ladies and gentlemen, we are back.

They have the most club members in the world at 400,000.

And in the last presidential election in November last year, when Rui Costa was elected as president, They set the world record for the most voters in a football club's presidential election at 93,000.

That's a lot.

That's a huge amount, isn't it? I mean, they are basically more powerful than a lot of political parties, aren't they, really? The interesting thing, I think, is how far the kind of tentacles reach out to the rest of the world, don't they? Like these clubs have an influence that percolates all the way kind of across

Love it.

So I won't take you through too much of it, but it does start with a 2-2 draw and then he does sign Rui Costa, who then gets injured.

But basically, it's one of the great reads I've ever had because Bobby Hundreds has basically played out the whole season, put screen grabs and descriptions of how Real Madrid got on throughout the season.

Yeah.

So he was like, you know, let's move on.

But apparently Rui Costa, the Benfica resident, didn't want to sell him because he was unconvinced by Silva's idea that there was no future for Ivanovic in the team.

So like there were other teams who were coming in with like offers or loan with buy option kind of deals.

They didn't take those.

I think it's a club thing.

This has been a big criticism at Benfica too, specifically at Rui Costa.

And now he overdoes it sometimes.

It