Central defender David Carmo has been demoted to FC Porto’s B team due to “inappropriate behavior”, the number two in national football announced on Thursday, while Zé Pedro will permanently join the main team.
In their daily newsletter, the ‘dragons’ indicate that the decision was taken by mutual agreement between the SAD administration chaired by Pinto da Costa and the football department, and that it will come into effect from Thursday morning’s training in Olival.
According to the sports press, the player disputed the coach’s choices.
David Carmo, 24 years old, has played twelve games for FC Porto this season, but has not been used since the defeat against Estoril Praia (3-1) on December 6 in the second round of group D of the League Cup. which resulted in the early retirement of the current holder of the trophy of the youngest competition in national professional football.
Biggest transfer ever between Portuguese clubs since the summer of 2022, when he left Sporting de Braga for 20.3 million euros (ME), the defender found it difficult to establish himself with the ‘dragons’ and played only 15 games under the guidance of coach Sérgio Conceição, which added three more meetings with the B team.
David Carmo is now evolving again under António Folha, in a position occupied by central defender Zé Pedro, who had already been promoted to the day job at Olival after Spaniard Iván Marcano suffered a ligament rupture in his right knee three months ago.
Since then, the defender has played four matches for the ‘secondary’ team, which remains in seventh place in the II League, with seven matches and one goal for Sérgio Conceição’s side, and was even a starter in the defeat he suffered in Alvalade suffered against Sporting. (2-0), Monday, at the ‘summit’ of leaders in the 14th round of the championship, which isolated the ‘lions’ at the top.
Zé Pedro, 26 years old, has been playing for team B since 2021/22, but was not part of the list of players registered by the ‘blue and whites’ for the group stage of the Champions League and started to flank captain Pepe, who is in February 41, and Fábio Cardoso in the basic solutions for the defensive axis of the third-placed team in the I League.
FC Porto and Leixões, both without points and already eliminated, will face each other on Saturday from 8:30 PM at Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, in a duel in the third and final round of Group D of the League Cup , with José refereeing Bessa, from the Porto association.
Source: DN
