Sevilla and Sporting pay tribute to Beto

In a friendly match at the Algarve stadium between Sevilla and Sporting Lisbon.Both teams honoured Beto after he had donned both jerseys during his professional career. During the break and after a warm greeting on the grass before the match, Both José María del Nido Carrasco, president of Sevilla FC, and Frederico Varandas, president of Sporting Portugal, presented the laureate with two T-shirts, which showed the number of matches in which he had defended both shields..

After training in the youth ranks of Portuguese Sporting, the Loures goalkeeper landed in the Andalusian capital in the 2012/13 season. It was in the 2013/14 season that Beto became one of the main characters ofImpossible Cup‘won in Turin against Benfica. The mainstay in the penalty shootout against Betis in the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Europa League, as well as from eleven meters in the final against the Portuguese national team. In Turin, Beto won the first of three UEFA Europa Leagues in four seasons as a Sevilla player..

After finishing his time at Nervión, the goalkeeper returned to Sporting de Portugal, where he trained as a professional. After nearly 20 seasons at the professional levelPortuguese goalkeeper in which he played 89 games for Sevilla and 13 for Portuguese side Sporting, the Portuguese goalkeeper retired in 2022, ending a career in which he won 4 UEFA Europa Leagues, a UEFA Nations League, a Portuguese League, two Portuguese Cups, a joint Portuguese League Cup, a Portuguese Super Cup and a Romanian Championship.