The football team Peruwhich has been directed since the end of January by the Brazilian coach Mano Menezeswill play friendly matches against Senegal and Honduras in France and Spainrespectively, during the FIFA dates next March, the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) reported on its social networks. “We meet again. La Bicolor returns to the fields to play their international friendlies,” the statement said.
The friendly with Senegal will be played on March 28 at the Saint-Dennis stadium in Paris, and the clash with Honduras will be on March 31 at the Butarque Municipal Stadium in Madrid.
The possible dispute of the match with Senegal, current champion of the African Cup, had already been anticipated last week by local media, which indicated that there was an agreement for that match and that a second match against another “ranking rival” in Europe was also being negotiated.
On January 29, upon being presented as Peru’s new coach for the qualification cycle for the 2030 World Cup, Mano Menezes stated that he is committed to making the Bicolor team “become a protagonist again” in South American football. The former Brazil coach also assured that he assumed “quite a big responsibility”, given the poor results obtained by Peru in recent years, after not having qualified the team for the 2022 and 2026 World Cup, but that “that responsibility of reconstruction” he “loves”.
