B/R
For Luis Alegria, it was never a comfortable situation. Regardless of how much he complained, he had to go through it before nearly every game. He would prepare the Sporting B team the whole week only to be told on the eve of the match that he needed to make room for three players from the senior squad to help them maintain their form.
It was just how things worked at the Lisbon giants in the 2002-03 season.
"You usually see athletes going from the reserves to the first team, not the opposite," Alegria tells Bleacher Report.