Central defender David Carmo was Demoted to FC Porto’s B team for inappropriate behaviorannounced this Thursday the national soccer runner-up, while Zé Pedro will definitely join the work of the main set.
In their daily bulletin, the ‘dragons’ indicate that the decision was made in concert between the SAD administration chaired by Pinto da Costa and the football department, and that it became effective from the training scheduled for this morning in the Olival.
David Carmo, 24 years old, He had 12 games for FC Porto this season.but it is no longer used since the defeat registered in the visit to Estoril Praia (3-1), on December 6, in the second day of Group D of the League Cup, which resulted in early dismissal of the current holder of the trophy of the youngest competition in national professional football.
Biggest transfer between Portuguese clubs since the summer of 2022, when he left Sporting de Braga for 20.3 million euros (ME), the defender had a hard time establishing himself in the ‘dragons’ and only played 15 games in 2022/23 with the direction of coach Sérgio Conceição, adding three more games with the B team.
David Carmo evolves again under the guidance of António Folhain a vacancy occupied by central defender Zé Pedro, who had already been promoted to daily work at Olival, after the Spanish Iván Marcano having suffered a torn ligament in the right knee Three months ago.
Since then, the defender played four duels with the ‘secondary’ team, which remains in seventh place in the II League, with seven games and one goal for Sérgio Conceição’s team, and was even a starter in the defeat suffered in Alvalade against Sporting. (2-0), on Monday, in the ‘summit’ of leaders of the 14th day of the championship, which isolated the ‘lions’ in the lead.
Zé Pedro, 26, has been playing in the B team since 2021/22, but was not part of the list of players registered by the ‘blue and white’ for the group stage of the Champions League, flanking captain Pepe , who turns 41 in February, and Fábio Cardoso at the root of the defensive axis of the third-placed team in the I Liga.
FC Porto and Leixões, both without points and already eliminated, will face each other on Saturday, starting at 8:30 p.m., at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, in a duel on the third and final day of Group D of the Cup of the League, with arbitration by José Bessa, from the Porto association.
Source: TSF
