Jorge Sanchez on the eve of the Portuguese Cup

The Mexico international will be the latest to return to Olival, but he is dreaming of making his debut for Villar de Perdezes.

Jorge Sanchez will be the FC Porto player most affected by this pause in club competitions to make way for national team matches. The Mexican will play two friendly matches to compete in the United States, with Ghana and Germany, and will return to Portugal just one day before the Dragons travel to Chaves to face Villar de Perdez, in the Portuguese Cup.

If there are no problems with air communications between Philadelphia and Porto, the right-back should arrive in time to participate in the final training session and join the team roster. It will then be up to Sergio Conceicao to assess the physical condition of Sanchez, who will be hoping to make his debut as a regular for the Blue and White, after being used as a substitute against Shakhtar Donetsk, in the Champions League, and Portimonense, in the Championship.

But the highlight of the longest journey fell to Eustaquio. The midfielder will have to spend more than 20 hours between airports and planes to reach Niigata, where Canada will face Japan in a warm-up match for the UN League, which will also serve as a qualifier for the 2024 Copa America, which will be held in the United States, Unidos, for CONCACAF teams. However, the Canadian will be the first of Porto’s international players to return to action, with the special match scheduled to take place on Friday.

On that day, remember that Diogo Costa (Portugal), Francisco Conceição (U21) and Taremi (Iran) are also playing, and the Portuguese will not even need to leave the national territory – just the following week. The attacker would do so in an area of ​​the world not far from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Amman located just over 200 kilometers from Gaza. The Iranian calendar anticipates two challenges for the Jordan International Championship, but the second challenge, scheduled for the 16th, still has no specific opponent – it will come from the winner of the match between Iraq and Qatar.