Well, lucky that Mario Götze (30) ended up at Eintracht Frankfurt and not in Portugal. Otherwise a great misfortune might have happened…
Pinto da Costa, President of FC Porto, reported in an interview with “Porto Canal” that he seemed to be afraid of our world champion! Götze caused panic at da Costa. Because he feared that the great archrival of FC Porto, Benfica Lisbon, could catch Götze.
Bizarre revelation – the Porto boss took tranquilizers because of Götze! Da Costa at “Porto Canal”: “I was very worried and even took sedatives.”
At the beginning of June, Lisbon was still very keen on Götze. Although the transfer fee was too high for the club, the Benfica bosses wanted to squeeze it in negotiations, as the Portuguese newspaper “Record” wrote at the time.
Pinto da Costa, President of FC Porto, took pills because of Mario Götze
And plenty of it. Fortunately, Eintracht made the transfer of Götze from PSV Eindhoven clear and da Costa was able to calm down. The President of FC Porto quite frankly: “When Götze was talked about, I swallowed a box of pills to calm myself more than once.”
A box? Anyway, apparently it stayed that way…
Da Costa continued: “After that I gave up because he didn’t come after all. Now I’m not worried at all.”
Well then, everyone is happy. Porto’s president, Eintracht, our world champion Mario Götze and all fans of the Bundesliga.
And all without pills...
