Africa-Press – Cape verde. Botafogo Futebol Club is determined to fight and win the national football championship and expects a “good result” in the first game of the semi-finals to take place this Sunday, at home, against Palmeira, from Sal.
Despite the setback on the way back to Fogo, the Botafogo team, which returned to the island around noon on Thursday, on a boat trip from the City of Praia and passing through Brava, wasted no time and carried out at the end of the same day, a training session at the Lém field, on the outskirts of the city of São Filipe.
Botafogo coach Danilo Dinis said that the players are motivated and available to fight and win the game at home, noting that it is always important to win at home.
Botafogo, which 12 years later returned to dispute the national championship, was the best runner-up in the group stage, but is determined to win its second title of national champion 42 years after having won the first national title and that the island flaunts.
The first leg of the semi-finals will be played at the São Lourenço field (São Filipe) on Sunday, June 26, and is led by an arbitration team from the South Santiago sports region formed by Ivaldir Isidoro Rodrigues Silva (main), Estevão Olímpio Fernandes da Rosa and Bruno Miguel Gomes Vaz (assistants) and Adilson João Moreno Cabral (fourth referee). The delegate for the game is Ariana Rodrigues, from the Cape Verdean Football Federation (FCF).
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