Africa-Press – Angola. The national football team for amputees ends today at 8 pm at Estádio dos Coqueiros, in downtown Luanda, the second phase of preparation work, before the trip to Turkey tomorrow.
Training begins with the indispensable and demanding warm-up exercises in a small space without the ball. After physical fitness, players do ball work to improve passing, reception and fast movement.
Before the details for the maintenance of the collective physical condition, the athletes sing the National Anthem after a prayer in the center of the field of play. In the final part of the preparation, the coach of the National Team, Cheto Baptista, divides the athletes into two groups for the dispute of a mini-game, in order to correct some tactical details.
However, the Angolan coach is concerned about some defensive and offensive aspects, especially the departures for the attack and the fast defensive transitions. Last night, the first part of the training session was focused on recovering the physical condition, due to the Sunday break for the collective.
Last Saturday, during training held in Baixa de Luanda, the technical team dismissed goalkeeper António Maria, from Misto do Cuanza-Norte, and forward Pedro Víctor (Benguela).
In Ankara, the world champions will complete a 15-day internship, as part of the preparation for the dispute of the final stage of the World Championship, from 30th of this month to 10th of October, in Istanbul.
In addition to the friendly game with the Uzbekistan counterpart, the world champions have four more games to play against the main Turkish clubs, such as Ezimir FC, Pendik SK, Trabzonsport and ODTU.
In the Turkish capital, the National Team will be concentrated at the Bulu Internship Centre, where it will remain until the 28th of this month before the opening ceremony of the World Cup.
For Ankara, the coaching staff takes goalkeepers Jesus Mateus, Sebastião Ca-cumba and Lilito Augusto, defenders Pé Longo, Francisco Amaro, Celestino Elias and Rocha Manuel, midfielders Laurindo Lucamba, Hilário Cufula and Jesus Morais and the forwards Sabino António, José Candeeiro, Lucas Fungula, João das Dores Chiquete, Heno Guilherme and Alberto Adelino.
Angola is part of Group F, along with Uruguay, Italy and Iraq. In the opening round, the world champions begin their defense of the title against Uruguay, on October 1, at 19:00, in Istanbul.
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