Cláudio Ramos: “We’re back raring to go and at full strength” | OneFootball

FC Porto kicked off pre-season this Wednesday. Francesco Farioli had 26 players at his disposal, including Cláudio Ramos, who, speaking to the club’s official media, admitted that the Dragons are ready to start the season at full strength and are already thinking about ending this new year the same way they finished the last one: by winning the national championship.

“Being champions is difficult, but working with the ambition we had last year, with the intensity and responsibility with which we work, is even harder than actually being champions. It is with that desire and that spirit that we are back, and we want to be champions again, but we respect and value the honor of representing this club,” said the goalkeeper.

The 34-year-old player, who is set to begin his seventh season in the service of the blue and whites, also stressed the importance and physical demands of pre-season.

“We are a team of intensity and a lot of running, so these training sessions are very important. Pre-season is there to give us the physical condition that will be necessary for all the challenges we will face throughout this season. We are back with a great desire to work and to start at full strength.”

Throughout the morning, the players split their time between the training center in Olival and Clínica do Dragão, to undergo the usual fitness tests and medical examinations.

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