Ghanaian fans will certainly see Real Madrid star man Ronaldo face the Black Stars as he has been called up into Portugal coach Paulo Bento’s final 23 for the World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo, who will be the team’s captain, has been joined by Manchester United’s Luis Nani and FC Monaco’s Joao Moutinho and their fans are expecting the team to progress from the group stages together with favourites Germany.<\/p>\n
Also in the team is Sevilla’s goalkeeper Beto whose exploits in the tournament’s final against Benfica earned the Spanish team the Europa League trophy.<\/p>\n
Miguel Veloso of Dynamo Kiev and William Carvalho of Sporting Lisbon have also made the squad but FC Porto’s Ricardo Quaresma failed to make the team together with Lyon goalie Anthony Lopes.<\/p>\n
Portugal will face Ghana on the 26th of June in Brasilia after playing against Germany and the USA in the first two group matches.<\/p>\n
However, they will play two friendly matches against Mexico on the 6th of June in Massachusetts and Ireland in New York on the 10th of June, 2014.<\/p>\n
Here is the full Portugal squad:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers:\u00a0<\/strong>Rui Patricio (Sporting), Beto (Sevilla\/ESP), Eduardo (Braga)<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/strong>\u00a0Andre Almeida (Benfica), Bruno Alves (Fenerbahce\/TUR), Fabio Coentrao (Real Madrid\/ESP), Joao Pereira (Valencia\/ESP), Neto (Zenit St. Petersburg\/RUS), Pepe (Real Madrid\/ESP), Ricardo Costa (Valencia\/ESP)<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/strong>\u00a0Joao Moutinho (Monaco\/FRA), Miguel Veloso (Dynamo Kiev\/UKR), Raul Meireles (Fenerbahce\/TUR), Ruben Amorim (Benfica), William Carvalho (Sporting)<\/p>\n Forwards:<\/strong>\u00a0Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid\/ESP), Eder (Braga), Helder Postiga (Lazio\/ITA), Hugo Almeida (Besiktas\/TUR), Nani (Manchester United\/ENG), Rafa (Braga), Varela (FC Porto), Vieirinha (Wolfsburg\/GER)<\/p>\n By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghanaian fans will certainly see Real Madrid star man Ronaldo face the Black Stars as he has been called up into Portugal coach Paulo Bento’s final 23 for the World Cup in Brazil. Ronaldo, who will be the team’s captain, has been joined by Manchester United’s Luis Nani and FC Monaco’s Joao Moutinho and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,1],"tags":[120,29,3,771,888],"class_list":["post-19594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd","category-uncategorized","tag-billboard-advertising","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-immigration","tag-samira-bawumia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}