Football/Brava: Morabeza sports club ready for the start of the 2023/24 football season – Emanuel de Pina

In an interview with Inforpress, the coach of Clube Morabeza, Emanuel de Pina, said that his team's squad is already “closed”, however, the start of preparations for the competition will begin on the sixth of November.

According to this “helmsman”, his team is a “serious” candidate to win any regional and national title, given that in the previous year’s sports season the club won the championship and had an “excellent” national competition.

“The previous year we won all the regional trophies and in the national competition we did very well, we didn't lose any games, but we could have done even better”, he noted.

Emanuel de Pina informed that some players who were “very important” in the squad and in the team’s trajectory in the previous season have already left the club, however, he considered that the management managed to create a very “organized” team, in each sector, as that new players were also hired.

“We hired some young talents from Brava, who will certainly help the team a lot, as we need to work on the little ones, as they need incentives to practice sport”, he highlighted.

Pina considered that his team is capable of representing Brava at national level and also reinforced that the island deserves to be among the four or two best teams in Cape Verde.

“In the national competition last season, I was a little hurt when we were eliminated, considering that our objective was not just to have a team in the competition to represent the island, but to go to the end and perhaps win the title” , he expressed.

In this sense, he highlighted that when his team beat Académica do Mindelo, national champion, they did not lose any game in the competition and also eliminated a “very strong” team like the Travadores from the Cape Verde Cup, which, according to him, either say that Clube Morabeza had the potential to go further.