28-year-old center-back Hugo Basto, who left Estorse at the end of last season, has accepted an invitation from club Neflochi, third in the Azerbaijani league, from Baku, the venue for tomorrow’s team game. In the city, he says, in a conversation with a ball, the national team can expect temperatures below 30 degrees Celsius, but without the humidity, not too much, it feels uncomfortable, yet the wind of the last few days helps to make things happen. More tolerable. ‘

Hugo is in his first international experience – ഞാൻ I think this is the right age, he was in Portugal too, I could not appreciate it, I decided to open the horizons – but he admits that he is still taking his first steps, out of guilt of a bad luck, delayed the merger time: എത്തി I arrived, we He soon played a European game with Olympiacos in Greece; Then I went back and caught Kovid … I had a good time, but it was boring to stay home without training. I finally resumed, and I was already on stage [tem até agora três jogos realizados, um da Liga e dois na Liga Conferência]. But the city … Baku is huge, the first impressions are good, you can clearly see it growing, it has a mix of old and modern, new and attractive and mirrored construction, a little bit of the image of Dubai. “

Hugo still does not know if he will be able to go to the national team game due to the training schedule, mostly due to the heat of the afternoon, but with 2-1 at Ireland, he saw trouble and warns the Portuguese to keep an eye open to overcome this hurdle to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.

With more accessible teams, we sometimes reveal ourselves a little more, but, fortunately, in Ireland, our beast appeared! Now it may not be next [CR7 estava em risco, viu amarelo e falha este jogo]… There are no easy games, and in Azerbaijan it is not. In Turin, remember that Portugal only won 1-0 in the first match of this qualification [e na sequência de um autogolo…]», Ing Hugo Basto recalls:« Portugal are great, obviously, have an obligation to win, but Ireland’s recent example, theoretically an easy game, should be the most noticeable. If we do as usual, our best, of course success can be reached perfectly. ⁇

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