Portugal today performs the final training before the reception of Thursday to Wales, a game that marks the start of the defense of the title of the League of Nations football and the debut of the new selector Jorge Jesus.
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23/09/2026
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Lusa
A national selection has a session scheduled for 17:00, in Football City, in Oeiras, with the first 15 minutes open to the media.
On Tuesday, Jorge Jesus counted on all 25 players called, including Captain Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Samuel Soares, Nuno Tavares, João Palhinha and Fábio Silva, the four novelties of the 72-year-old coach.
Before, at 3:30 p.m., at the FPF Arena, where Portugal Football Summit is taking place, Jesus and a player still to be appointed will make in press conference the preview of the duel with the Welsh.
Portugal begins the ‘era’ Jorge Jesus, and the defense of the title of the League of Nations, on Thursday, in front of Wales, in a match of the A4 Group scheduled for 19:45, at the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, which will have arbitration of Lithuanian Donatas Rumsas.
In this first qualifying ‘window’, the national team twice faces Norway, on 27 September, in Oslo, and on 4 October, at the Dragon Stadium in Porto, and in the middle, on 1 October, plays in Copenhagen with Denmark.
Portugal won two of the four editions of the League of Nations, the first in 2019, on a run-off with a 1-0 triumph against the Netherlands, in the final of the Dragon, with a goal of Gonçalo Guedes, at 60 minutes.
After the victories of France in 2021, and Spain in 2023, the selection of ‘chines’ again won the competition in 2025, this time thanks to a triumph in the decisive game against Spain, by 5-3 in the penaltis, after 2-2 in 120 minutes.