Intro:
Portugal trained on Sunday, after finding out that it would be neighbours Spain who would be their semi-final opponents at Euro 2012.
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Warm summer weather once again greeted the Portuguese team at their training camp in Opalenica on Sunday.
Cristiano Ronaldo and his team mates trained knowing who their semi-final opponents will be - and it is a familiar foe.
Spain's 2-0 win over France means that it is the reigning champions whom Paulo Bento's side will face in the final four - the game taking place at the Donbass Arena on the the 27th of June.
Bento is likely to make a change up front for the clash - with Hugo Almeida coming in for the injured Helder Postiga.
The last time the side's met was two years ago - when Portugal recorded a remarkable 4-0 win in a friendly match in Lisbon.
However Spain did knock them out of the World Cup in 2010 in the second round, and Portugal go into the game as underdogs.
So much for the Portugal of today - arguably the country's greatest-ever star was in the minds of the team.
Joao Perreira is confident that he'll be ok though
"We are all with him. We know he is a strong man, he has always showed it during his sporting career and afterwards and we know he is going to recover quickly. So that's why we are not that worried because we are confident of his recovery."
70-year-old Eusebio felt sick late Saturday in Opalenica, where he has been accompanying the Portuguese team during their campaign.
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2008 | Spain | Germany | Russia / Turkey |
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2000 | France | Italy | Netherlands / Portugal |
1996 | Germany | Czech Republic | France / England |
1992 | Denmark | Germany | Netherlands / Sweden |
1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union | Italy / West Germany |
1984 | France | Spain | Denmark / Portugal |
1980 | West Germany | Belgium | Czechoslovakia |
1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany | Netherlands |
1972 | West Germany | Soviet Union | Belgium |
1968 | Italy | Yugoslavia | England |
1964 | Spain | Soviet Union | Hungary |
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