Source linked to the process confirmed to the agency Lusa Club’s intention to be rescheduled for a later date one of the inaugural journey of the championshipwhich is scheduled for Saturday, starting at 8:30 pm, at Dragão Stadium, in Porto, and will mark the official debut of Italian Francesco Farioli in the technical command ‘blue and white’.
FC Porto requested this Tuesday to the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPPF) the postponement of the reception to Vitória de Guimarães, scheduled for Saturday, in the debut in the I Liga, after the death of former Central Defense and leader Jorge Costa.
Source linked to the process confirmed to the agency Lusa Club’s intention to be rescheduled for a later date one of the inaugural journey of the championshipwhich is scheduled for Saturday, starting at 8:30 pm, at Dragão Stadium, in Porto, and will mark the official debut of Italian Francesco Farioli in the technical command ‘blue and white’.
The LPFP’s Permanent Commission of Calendars meets this Tuesday, former Portuguese Central International Defense of FC Porto and so far director for the club’s professional football, at the age of 53, following a cardiorespiratory arrest.
Source from the São João Hospital told Lusa that Jorge Costa “went into cardiorespiratory to the emergency room” From that hospital center, where he was transported, after being sick at the club’s internship center in Olival in Vila Nova de Gaia.
Funeral ceremonies will start on Wednesday, with honors at the Dragon Stadium between 15:00 and 22:00being the present body mass scheduled for Thursday, in the Church of St. John the Baptist of Foz do Douro, before the pomeggement to the cemetery of Agramonte.
Jorge Costa represented the ‘dragons’ in 383 official games between 1992 and 2005, and was captain for several seasons, having won a champions league, an UEFA Cup, an intercontinental cup, eight national champion titles, five Portugal cups and five broodies.
The former defender added 50 internationalizations and two goals for the main national team of Portugal, which represented in the final stages of Euro2000 and the World2002, already after winning the 1991 under-20 World Cup in Lisbon.
