Striker with 53 goals for Sporting makes Portugal’s provisional squad | OneFootball

Paulinho, forward for Toluca, is on Roberto Martínez's preliminary list of call-ups - which involved a serious error in a Mexican newspaper - for the friendly matches of the Portuguese National Team against Mexico and the United States of America. The Mexican club, where the 33-year-old player has been playing for two seasons, has already received the preliminary call-up.

According to the newspaper O JOGO, the two goals were scored in a friendly against Andorra, at the Estádio da Luz.

In the last two friendlies before the final training camp for the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, Portugal will face Mexico on March 28, at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, starting at 7:00 PM local time (1:00 AM on the 29th in Lisbon), playing three days later in Atlanta, with the kickoff scheduled for 7:07 PM local time (12:07 AM the next day in Lisbon).

In the World Cup, Portugal is in Group K, along with Uzbekistan and Colombia and an opponent yet to be determined, which will come from the intercontinental playoff between the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jamaica, and New Caledonia.

This season, wearing the Toluca jersey, Paulinho - valued at 6 million euros - has already played 32 games: 29 in the Mexican League, one in the Mexican Super Cup, one in the CONCACAF Super Cup, and another in the CONCACAF Champions League. In the 2,294 minutes he has participated, the former Sporting forward has scored 22 goals and provided three assists.

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