{"id":12413,"date":"2025-06-25T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/filipa-patao-promises-passion-and-aggressive-football-for-boston-legacy-fc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:55:09","slug":"filipa-patao-promises-passion-and-aggressive-football-for-boston-legacy-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/filipa-patao-promises-passion-and-aggressive-football-for-boston-legacy-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipa Pat\u00e3o promises passion and aggressive football for Boston Legacy FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filipa Pat\u00e3o: Passion and Competitiveness at the Head of Boston Legacy FC<\/h2>\n\nCoach Filipa Pat\u00e3o, the new helmswoman of Boston Legacy FC, has made her approach clear: her teams will play with passion and aggression. After five years coaching Benfica, Pat\u00e3o was officially presented as the first coach of the NWSL expansion team for 2026.\n\n\n
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My teams will be very competitive, intense and aggressive. I like to press, win the ball quickly because I like to have possession. I was a player, so what I like most in football is having the ball.<\/p>\n\nFilipa Pat\u00e3o<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPat\u00e3o, who had a distinguished career as a player at Benfica and in the Portuguese national team, embodies the passion she hopes to transmit to her team. The 36-year-old coach highlighted the shared vision during interviews with Boston executives, including general manager Dom\u00e8nec Guasch.\n\nPat\u00e3o’s philosophy focuses on high-intensity football and creating a work environment that prioritizes creativity. During the interview process, he found a common vision with Guasch, who brings vast experience after his time at Barcelona.\n\nAlthough he prefers his teams to maintain possession of the ball, Pat\u00e3o considers himself adaptable, a crucial quality for success in the NWSL, where matches are often defined in transition.\n\n\n

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If you are a good player, you can do everything. We need to be flexible.<\/p>\n\nFilipa Pat\u00e3o<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPat\u00e3o will adapt his playing style to the strengths of the players that Boston signs. She describes herself as “chameleonic”, capable of changing according to the needs to win.\n\n\n

\"Filipa<\/figure>\n\n\nFilipa Pat\u00e3o was announced as the first coach of the NWSL expansion team, Boston Legacy FC, on Wednesday.\n\nPat\u00e3o is inspired by coaches like Luis Enrique and thanks Ant\u00f3nio Fonte Santa, Benfica’s technical director, for giving him the opportunity to work with the lower categories before taking over the women’s first team.\n\nUnder his direction, Benfica won five consecutive league titles and became the first Portuguese team to reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Women’s Champions League in the 2023-24 season. Now, Pat\u00e3o seeks to replicate that success in a league considered one of the most demanding in the world.\n\nThe Boston Legacy FC will be able to start signing players on July 1st. Expansion teams, including the one in Denver, will be able to loan players within the NWSL, a new advantage that will allow them to build competitive squads from scratch.\n\nPat\u00e3o is optimistic about the challenge.\n\n\n
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It’s not patience; it’s believing in the process. You don’t become the best in the first moment, but if you continue consolidating your process and believe in it, it’s impossible to fail.<\/p>\n\nFilipa Pat\u00e3o<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPat\u00e3o states that they will seek the best players and that their “mission” is to make them feel the best. For the Portuguese coach, success also lies in joy and passion. Retired from football due to fatigue, Pat\u00e3o insists on reminding her players of the importance of passion.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filipa Pat\u00e3o: Passion and Competitiveness at the Head of Boston Legacy FC Coach Filipa Pat\u00e3o, the new helmswoman of Boston Legacy FC, has made her approach clear: her teams will play with passion and aggression. After five years coaching Benfica, Pat\u00e3o was officially presented as the first coach of the NWSL expansion team for 2026. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2769,1240,2922,798],"class_list":{"0":"post-12413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-boston-legacy-fc","9":"tag-expansion","10":"tag-filipa-patao","11":"tag-nwsl"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}