Francisco Conceição #26

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The tricky and fast winger left Porto after the fallout between his father Sergio, who was the coach, and the club president André Villas-Boas, in 2024, joining Juventus, where he wears the No 7 shirt that once upon a time belonged to Cristiano Ronaldo. "I didn’t get to speak to him before I joined,” Conceição told Sport TV. “But afterwards he said it is a huge club that demands everything from the player, a club that is used to winning, where you have to win every single competition you enter.” Francisco says his father was the best coach he ever had – "there are few like him" – but Sergio told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he had to use stick as well as carrot to get the best out of his son. “I gave him his debut during lockdown but he was a bit chubby so I said: ‘If you are hungry, drink water’. To go far you need to make sacrifices and have a certain mentality.

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