Pedro Proença says that Portugal is a candidate to win the 2026 World Cup. On the sidelines of the inauguration of an exhibition of trophies won in 2025, at Viseu City Hall, the president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) highlights the work done by the clubs and the "symbiosis" that exists in the country's professional football. «Portuguese football lives a different, differentiated reality, and we bring this ambition with us. With responsibility, we assume that obviously, we really want to, we are going to be candidates to win the 2026 World Cup. We accept it without any type of prejudice», he begins by saying. «With this group of players, with this professional structure that the FPF has today, the work done by the clubs, this entire football community feeding Portuguese football. We have to assume, we want to win. In every aspect that Portugal enters into, it enters to win and the results arise through the symbiosis that exists in professional football", he adds.
