The preparatory matches for the World Cup with two of the African teams qualified for Qatar are scheduled for September 23 and 27, FIFA’s last date for friendlies before the competition, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) reported in a statement. .
According to the Confederation, the cities and times in which the friendlies will be played will be announced later, but it is already defined that both will be played in some European country, where the majority of the possible summoned acts.
The preference of the CBF is to be able to schedule both matches at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, the headquarters of Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and the home of Neymar, the main figure of the Canarinha, and Marquinhos, another regular summoned.
The two friendlies were announced after the agreement that Brazil, Argentina and FIFA reached to definitively cancel the match that the two South American teams had pending in September even for the World Cup qualifiers.
Although the Brazilian coach, Tite, has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction at the impossibility of negotiating friendlies with high-level European teams, the Confederation clarified that Ghana and Tunisia are among the best teams in the world.
“Ghana and Tunisia will also be in Qatar. Ghana will face Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea in Group H. And Tunisia was drawn in Group D alongside France, Denmark and Australia,” according to the CBF statement.
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