The newest edition of the official FC Porto magazine is now available. With an interview to Mehdi Taremi taking the cover, the magazine Dragões lets you get to know the Iranian forward in his own words. First hand, the new number 9 of the Dragons admits that playing for FC Porto was a “dream”, which made him turn down offers from the rivals from Lisbon.

“I chose FC Porto because it’s a strong family and more famous than Benfica in Iran”, the blue and white forward revealed, adding that he believes he is in a “world class” club that has everything: “Good coach, good players, good staff, good medical staff... Everything in the club is great”. “We are a family and we are close, and that is important”, Taremi continued, before concluding: “That’s what we need to become champions”.

Issue number 411 of Dragões does the preview of the Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League, which will be played over the next weeks. “11 chapters of history in stripes” remembers what unites and separates FC Porto and Juventus, from Basel, in 1984, to Turin, in 2017, from Rui Barros to Danilo and Alex Sandro. 

In December, 2020, Malang Sarr scored the first of two goals that qualified FC Porto to the semi-finals of the League Cup, becoming the third international French player to score for the Dragons. “Porto, je t’aime!” tells the story of Eliaquim Mangala and Stéphane Paille, the two other French players that complete the trio.

The recently named man of the match in the Cup Hugo dos Santos, won by FC Porto, also talked to the official magazine of the club. Before the victories in the classics in Sines, Eric Anderson Jr. foretold: “This team was built to win titles”. After admitting he already knew the football team, “obviously” the North American centre revealed that he is “loving” his life in Portugal.

In the summer of 2020, Ezequiel Mena moved from Barcelos to the city that named Portugal. “I’m enjoying every single day I wear these colours”, the 22 years old stated. In an interview to Dragões, the Argentinian stated that roller hockey always made him “happy”, even as a “child”, when he was a “energetic and edgy boy” and could “take it out on the sport”.

“Genetic artillery” is a piece that focus on handball and on the Costa family. Ricardo, Martim and Francisco share the sport in their blood and talked to the official FC Porto magazine about how the legacy was passed from father to sons and how two brothers share the locker room in one of the top European teams.

Lastly, the February edition of Dragões recovers the class given by Professor José Neto about José Maria Pedroto. Last month, the former coach was at the FC Porto Museum to relive the legend of the Master and to offer some information on the iconic blue and white player and coach, who passed away 36 years ago.

The number 411 of Dragões will hit the FC Porto Stores soon. Until then, the digital version is already available. It’s easy and free.