FC Porto left for the traditional pre-season training camp in the Algarve with 33 players, including the seven international players who only joined the team on Monday, the national runners-up announced.
In addition to the Portuguese Diogo Costa, Pepe and Otávio, the Nigerian Zaidu, the Serbian Marko Grujic, the Canadian Stephen Eustáquio and the Iranian Mehdi Taremi, the main novelty in the delegation is the presence of the 18-year-old Luso-Guinean midfielder Ussumane Djaló . years.
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The squad brings together six more players who are part of FC Porto’s U-19 and B teams, but who had evolved in recent days with the senior team, such as Francisco Meixedo, Dinis Rodrigues, João Mendes, Vasco Sousa, Rui Monteiro and Abraham Marcus.
Rodrigo Fernandes and Wendel Silva were in the same situation, but were passed over by coach Sérgio Conceição, before the squad traveled late in the afternoon to Vale do Garrão, in the Algarve, where, as usual since 2021, he will train until July 26. .
FC Porto will alternate training with preparation matches against Portimonense (Wednesday), Estrela da Amadora (July 26), both from the I Liga, against Welsh Cardiff City (Saturday), from the English second division, and against Wolverhampton (day 25). ), of the Premier League.
The ‘dragons’ aim for the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup against national champion Benfica, on August 8 or 9, in Aveiro, in the first official match of 2023/24.
List of the 33 selected for the internship in the Algarve:
– Goalkeepers: Diogo Costa, Cláudio Ramos, Samuel Portugal and Francisco Meixedo.
– Defenders: João Mário, Dinis Rodrigues, Pepe, Fábio Cardoso, João Mendes, João Marcelo, Iván Marcano, David Carmo, Wendell and Zaidu.
– Midfielders: Marko Grujic, Stephen Eustáquio, Bernardo Folha, Romário Baró, Ussumane Djaló, Otávio, André Franco and Vasco Sousa.
– Forwards: Pepê, Gonçalo Borges, Abraham Marcus, Rui Monteiro, Galeno, Gabriel Veron, Mehdi Taremi, Danny Namaso, Evanilson, Fran Navarro and Toni Martínez.
Source: TSF
