"I've got a problem," Ruben Amorim replied when his friend Bruno Simao suggested fixing up a trial game at Portuguese club Belenenses so the childhood pals could be reunited.
Amorim and Simao, who had played football together since the age of nine, had gone their separate ways after being released by their hometown club Benfica in their teens.
While Simao had managed to get himself fixed up at nearby Belenenses, midfielder Amorim was struggling to come to with being let go by the club he had ed as a boy growing up in Lisbon.
"I said to Ruben: 'Why don't you come and play with me again at Belenenses">