Síl Rebelo says that Portugal will be available “whatever” to go to the 2023 World Cup
“We know it’s a ‘knockout’ game. To be in the next game, we need to win this one and that makes a difference. We know Belgium are very competent, but we only depend on us and we really want to be at the World Cup. do everything in our power”, assured the footballer, at Cidade do Futebol, in Oeiras.
Sí Rebelo spoke to journalists before an apron was not present, as was a striker Jéssica Silva, although Francisco Neto has the remaining 23 athletes selected for this phase of selection of qualification.
“All of us as teams would not be in the world and we are no longer. , but they are no longer important for qualifying. that we have to hold on, be competent and manage to put Portugal in the World Cup”, he expressed.
The different format of the `play-off`, of just one game, removes the “possibility of correction of errors” for a second match, but the Portuguese international stressed that the players will have to adapt “as soon as possible”, and , at the highest level, this “is part”.
“When we play for Portugal, the responsibility has to be maximum. When another game, we can correct mistakes and end up being easier in theory, but we are aware of the moment we are in. It will be a good game”, underlined the player of the national champion. Benfica.
Before training, all the players posed for photographs with a banner that said “Denuncia! In comunicacao.fpf.pt”, alluding to the recent case of sexual harassment, coach Miguel Afonso and coach Samuel Costa, from Famalic
“Solidarity. Let’s see all the people we are making a point of. This is not in football, in society. anchor, now it happened in football, but to give them strength and football”, stressed Sívia Rebelo, when not about the silence case .
The `quinas` team welcomes on Thursday in Belgium, from 18:00, at Estádio do Vizela, in the first round of the continental `play-off` of qualification for the 2023 World Cup.
In case of victory, the Portuguese team will face Iceland in the second round, on October 11, also from 18:00, in Paços de Ferreira, in a game in which, if it also wins, it qualifies for the World Cup if it is a of the best two (group stage points, with first, third, fourth and fifth, and second round of the `play-off`).
In case the qualification, but as the worst of the qualified, Portugal will go to an intercontinental `play-off`, in New Zealand, which will dictate the three spots, with China Taipei, Thailand, Cameroon, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Haiti, Panama, Chile and Paraguay.
The finals of the World Championship will be held in Australia and New Zealand from 20 July to 20 August 2023.