Commotion in Portuguese football. Not because Sporting played champions, but because of a remarkable appearance in the second division.
Tuesday May 7, 2024 at 10:47 am
Länk FC Vilaverdense – a satellite club of first division club Braga – played a crucial match there last weekend. A defeat would seal its fate and drop to the third tier and in the 86th minute Vilaverdense found themselves 0-1 down against Torreense. High time to throw everything into battle? No, coach Sergio Machado sent 45-year-old Courtney Reum onto the field and saw his team lose.
“In the last minutes I made a decision. Not as a coach, but as the father of this group,” he said afterwards. “It was tough, but I had to do it for the good of my ‘children’. These last ten minutes have helped tremendously so that my players don’t have to go through what they went through again. I can’t say too much, all I can say is it was hard.”
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What seems? The substitute Reum is not just anyone. He is the brother-in-law of world star Paris Hilton, who is married to the successful entrepreneur Carter Reum. Moreover, Vilaverdense chairman Adrian Johansson is a good friend of the two, which is why Courtney Reum signed a contract with the club in the winter without any experience as a professional footballer.
Shortly afterwards, the American invested a lot of money in the Portuguese club and now he was able to make his dream come true: playing in an official match. However, the fact that it was Vilaverdense’s last match in the so-called Liga Pro for the time being did not receive much sympathy. “Never in my life would I put my players in danger. I had to make decisions that were against my principles, but the well-being of my players is more important than my principles,” Machado added.
Paris Hilton and Carter Reum, brother of So. — © AFP
