Rui Borges brings fresh faces to Sporting training after squad’s break | OneFootball

Sporting returned to training after three days off granted to the squad, following the draw with Braga at the Estádio de Alvalade. Rui Borges called up some new faces to make up for the absences caused by the FIFA international break.

As such, the Sporting coach brought seven young players from the club’s youth academy into the first-team training. They are: Samuel Justo, Rafael Nel, Paulo Cardoso, Kauã Oliveira, José Silva, Rafael Besugo, and Rômulo Junior.

These promotions by Rui Borges – who wants a signing in the winter transfer window – are due to the reduced squad he will have to work with in the coming days. The international call-ups, both for the senior teams and the youth national teams, ‘took’ a total of 15 players away from the Sporting coach.

The following players are among those absent: Rui Silva, Pedro Gonçalves, Gonçalo Inácio, and Francisco Trincão (Portugal); Geovany Quenda and João Simões (Portugal U21); Rodrigo Ribeiro (Portugal U20); Luis Suárez (Colombia); Giorgi Kochorashvili (Georgia); Georgios Vagiannidis and Fotis Ioannidis (Greece); Geny Catamo (Mozambique); Zeno Debast (Belgium); Morten Hjulmand (Denmark); and Iván Fresneda (Spain U21).

Sporting will train again next Friday, October 10th, in the morning, in a closed-door session. Rui Borges continues to prepare the next matches for the Lions without much of the starting green-and-white team that drew the last match with Braga.

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