Rui Borges’ golden boy at Sporting on a special programme at Alvalade | OneFootball

Sporting has implemented a preventive muscle strengthening plan for Hidemasa Morita. Although highly valued by Rui Borges, the Japanese player lost his starting position due to constant physical problems and has already publicly admitted to going through a rough patch.

According to information reported by the newspaper A Bola, the midfielder’s post had nothing to do with mental health, but rather with the constant physical problems he has suffered since last season, which cost him his starting status at Sporting.

Left out of the Japanese national team due to limited playing time at Alvalade and not being at 100%, Morita is using the FIFA break to try to improve his physical condition, with an eye on the remainder of Sporting’s season and the 2026 World Cup.

The world’s biggest national team competition will take place in a few months and the midfielder is afraid he might not be fit enough to be called up. As such, Sporting’s number 5 is following a strict muscle strengthening plan, trying to reverse a situation that, over the past year and a half, has made him miss 21 matches for the Lions.

This season, wearing the Sporting shirt, Hidemasa Morita – valued at 11 million euros – has played 14 matches. At the start of this season, the Japanese international midfielder has played a total of 633 minutes, during which he assisted his teammates once.

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