59 Liga Portugal players were called up to the main teams of their respective countries
For this international break, 59 players from the Portuguese championship were called up to represent the main teams of their respective countries. Can you recognize them all?
Here are some data:
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FC Porto, with nine call-ups, is the Portuguese club with the most call-ups. Sporting and Benfica follow, both with eight.
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The Portuguese team is, by far, the most represented, with 10 footballers. Next, with three, are Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Venezuela.
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17 of the 18 clubs in the Liga Portugal currently have players serving the main teams. Rio Ave is the only exception.
Did you manage to get them all right? If not, stay here with the ordered list of players:
– Gonçalo Inácio (Sporting) – Portugal
– António Silva (Benfica) – Portugal
– Pepe (FC Porto) – Portugal
– Diogo Costa (FC Porto) – Portugal
– Samuel Soares (Benfica) – Portugal
– Francisco Trincão (Sporting) – Portugal
– Bruma (SC Braga) – Portugal
– Jota Silva (V. Guimarães) – Portugal
– João Neves (Benfica) – Portugal
– Francisco Conceição (FC Porto) – Portugal
– Kialonda Gaspar (E. Amadora) – Angola
– Depú (Gil Vicente) – Angola
– Jonathan Buatu (Gil Vicente) – Angola
– Wenderson Galeno (FC Porto) – Brazil
– Pepê (FC Porto) – Brazil
– Wendell (FC Porto) – Brazil
– Wagner Pina (Estoril) – Cape Verde
– Hélio Varela (Portimonense) – Cape Verde
– João Correia (Chaves) – Cape Verde
– Ricardo Guima (Chaves) – Mozambique
– Geny Catamo (Sporting) – Mozambique
– Jhonder Cádiz (Famalicão) – Venezuela
– Telasco Segovia (Casa Pia) – Venezuela
– Matías Lacava (Vizela) – Venezuela
– Morten Hjulmand (Sporting) – Dinamarca
– Alexander Bah (Benfica) – Denmark
– Rafik Guitane (Estoril) – Algeria
– Mohamed Belloumi (Farense) – Algeria
– Chidozie Awaziem (Boavista) – Nigeria
– Bruno Onyemaechi (Boavista) – Nigeria
– Hidemasa Morita (Sporting) – Japan
– Yuki Soma (Casa Pia) – Japan
– Rodrigo Zalazar (SC Braga) – Uruguay
– Franco Israel (Sporting) – Uruguay
– Osama Rashid (Vizela) – Iraq
– Ricardo Fernandes (Estoril) – São Tomé and Príncipe
– Nanu (E. Amadora) – Guinea-Bissau
– Zach Muscat (Farense) – Malta
– Róbert Bozenik (Boavista) – Slovakia
– Puma Rodríguez (Famalicão) – Panama
– Jesús Castillo (Gil Vicente) – Peru
– Morlaye Sylla (Arouca) – Guinea
– Asué (Moreirense) – Equatorial Guinea
– Sikou Niakate (SC Braga) – Mali
– Mehdi Taremi (FC Porto) – Iran
– Enea Mihaj (Famalicão) – Albania
– Gaius Makouta (Boavista) – Congo
– Ousmane Diomande (Sporting) – Ivory Coast
– Orkun Kokçu (Benfica) – Turquia
– Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica) – Ukraine
– Regis N’Do (E. Amadora) – Burkina Faso
– Jorge Sánchez (FC Porto) – Mexico
– Stephen Eustáquio (FC Porto) – Canada
– Vladislav Morozov (Arouca) – Belarus
– Simon Banza (SC Braga) – RD Congo
– Viktor Gyokeres (Sporting) – Sweden