Portugal at the door of the League of Nations
Having finished the national and European campaigns at club level, the national football team will start its journey next week, which we all wish a long one, in the third edition of the League of Nations, in which 55 countries will take part.
In the first phase, Portugal will have as options the selections of Spain, Switzerland and República Chega, playing twice with each of them. In the home matches, our team will play at the stadium in Alvalade in turn, closing in Braga, against Spain, its initial participation on September 27.
After fulfilling a long schedule, the finals will be played between 14 and 18 June of the next year, with the first four teams in the groups facing each other in the semi-finals, then qualifying for two teams to decide, in the final, who will be the winner of the League of Nations.
The team led by Fernando Santos will, for now, play four games in eleven days, vacation investigation, after that, to start the next season in the respective teams.
It must be recognized that this is a very demanding moment.
Most athletes come from a very intense season, with participation in several of the most demanding championships held in Europe. However, this is an aspect that many players from other countries also have, which allows us to think that, in terms of quality, the same quality cannot be very visible in the vast majority of the matches that we are going to see.
As always, our selector’s choices are subject to debate. However, the spirit that should animate us all must focus, above all and primarily, on the quality of the national team which, winner of the first edition of the League of Nations, starts with justified ambitions to repeat this feat.