Veteran defender Pepe has been dominated out for Portugal’s first two Euro 2024 qualifying matches later this month, the nation’s soccer federation introduced Monday.
The 40-year-old Porto participant already missed his facet’s match in opposition to Sporting Braga this weekend attributable to a leg harm.
He had been included in new Portugal coach Roberto Martinez’s first squad because the former Belgium coach took over.
But medics for Portugal’s soccer federation have signed him off for the matches in opposition to Liechtenstein on Thursday and Luxembourg three days later, the Portuguese federation mentioned in an announcement.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been named in Martinez’s first squad as Portugal supremo regardless of being dropped from the beginning lineup for Portugal’s closing matches of the World Cup in Qatar the place they had been knocked out by Morocco within the quarter-finals.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com