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 we work with, is even harder than simply being champions. It is with that desire and that spirit that we have returned, and we want to be champions again, but we respect and want to value the honour of representing this club,” said the goalkeeper.

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

“We are a team built on intensity and a lot of running, so these training sessions are very important. Pre-season gives us the physical condition that will be needed for all the challenges we will face throughout the campaign. We have come back eager to work and to start at full strength.”

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

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