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This Monday, Cristiano Ronaldo shared on social networks his pride to be back in the national soccer team, a comment that he illustrated with a photo in which he appears hugging Pepe, smiling and with his thumb up.
“It is always a pride to be back in the national team and defend the symbol of the nation of all Portuguese!”, Wrote the most international of national footballers in his account on a social network.
The Juventus forward published a photo with his friend and teammate Pepe, a FC Porto center-back, in which they appear hugging and smiling, thumbs up, in training for the ‘corner team’ that started today. Saturday’s duel with Croatia, starting the Nations League.
Coach Fernando Santos summoned 25 players, including newcomers Rui Silva, Granada’s goalkeeper, and Francisco Trincão, winger recently transferred from Sporting de Braga to FC Barcelona.
Before the session, which was held behind closed doors as a preventive measure against the covid-19 pandemic, the players, coaches and the rest of the national team staff carried out tests on the new coronavirus, with all negative results.
Portugal, the current head of the Nations League, will return to training on Tuesday, again at the Cidade do Futebol, at 10:30 am, in a match that will again be behind closed doors.
For the first time, the 25 players summoned by Fernando Santos are installed in the so-called ‘Casa dos Atletas’ until they travel to Porto at the end of the week, where they will face the current world runners-up, on the first day of Group 3.
Three days after the duel at Estádio do Dragão, Portugal travels to Solna, outside of Stockholm, to face Sweden.
The national team has yet to play a match in 2020, due to covid-19. The last meeting took place on November 17 last year, in the 2-0 victory in Luxembourg, which qualified for the final stage of Euro2020, which, meanwhile, was postponed until 2021 due to the pandemic.
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