08-OCTOBER-2013
NATIONAL TEAM WITH THE WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP ON ITS SIGHT

Men’s National Team, coached by Hugo Silva, continues practicing at the sporting facilities of the Carolina Michaelis High School, Porto.
This first group of athletes integrates some of the players who took part in the Junior National Team in the previous years, and who could be a future option for Hugo Silva and the men’s team.

“The main goal for these first weeks is to study the athletes and to hurry our preparation. They are young prospects who have the potential to be called for the Men’s National Team but have yet to show all their capabilities. At this stage, they’re getting acquainted with the National Team trainings and game plan, in case they are called up for the training camp of December to prepare the World Championship qualification round, in January, and for the World League in May, stated Hugo Silva, who added:
“We can say that this work is going well. It’s true that the ideal was practicing more than 1 time per week, but such thing isn’t viable, as we were taking the athletes away from their clubs”. This first stage includes National Championship matches observation as well as foreign championship matches. We want to see all the players available”.

Portugal pursuits a World Championship final round presence since 2002, when the National Team reached the 8th place at Argentina.
“Maybe it’s the hardest task for a national team, to qualify for a World Championship final round. Besides the Olympic Games, this competition is where every player wants to be. We’re aware of that and we know what is possible to be done. We’re ending a cycle with some veteran athletes and the team’s renovation will happen. We have nothing to lose, we will try to qualify and dignify the sport, concluded Hugo Silva.

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