FC Porto call up nine Olival gems and Eirik Granaas for pre-season | OneFootball

With less than a week to go before FC Porto’s pre-season gets underway, and besides the more experienced players, there are around ten youngsters who have been told to report to the Jorge Costa Training Centre next Wednesday. Nine talents developed at Olival and Eirik Granaas, a Norwegian just 16 years old who was presented as a new signing last week, will have the chance to impress Francesco Farioli in this first phase of training, with the possibility that some of them could then travel with the team to the training camp at St George’s Park, the English Football Association’s training centre.

Alongside the Norwegian signing, Yoan Pereira, Luís Gomes, Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima, Mateus Mide, João Teixeira, André Miranda, Duarte Cunha and Eduardo Ferreira will begin preparations with the first team squad. For most of them, this is simply a continuation of what already happened in 2025/26, a season in which they were called up several times to work under Farioli. Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima and André Miranda, meanwhile, have already played minutes for the senior side and were part of the group that won the national title.

Now, the aim is to turn those occasional call-ups into regular appearances, with the first goal being to secure a place in the group after the first cut, which should happen before the trip to England for the training camp scheduled between 13 and 18 July.

Also worth highlighting is Tcherno Jamanca, the under-17s’ top scorer, who could also be called up to work with the first team. This is due both to the potential he has already shown and to the need to strengthen a centre-forward group that, for now, will not include Samu.

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