Manchester United star Wayne Rooney will travel to Portugal for extra training ahead of this summer's World Cup.
The 28-year old forward has missed the end of the Premier League season with a groin injury and has been sent over to the mainland a week earlier than the rest of the England squad in a bid to gain full fitness.
Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson told reporters that Rooney would work with the national team's fitness coaches for around a week prior to the rest of his roster reporting for duty.
"He's going to with two fitness trainers. Tony Strudwick has been in touch with us, who wanted to know about the pitch in Vale de Lobo," Hodgson said.
"This is a free week, a week where players go off. Many do go to Portugal, where they have homes.
"Wayne is so determined to be up and running when we get there on the 19th. He's got a house out there in Portugal. He's not alone. A few of them are going out to Portugal.
"If they've got houses out there, that's where they go on their week off. They don't all go to Dubai and Las Vegas.
"His attitude is that he's desperate to be up and running on the 19th. I'm not as desperate for him to be fully fit on the May 19th. I'm thinking more of the 14th of June, but it's still quite laudable that that's the way he thinks and I'm not trying to dissuade him.
"But if I do get there on the 19th and the fitness people say he needs two or three days, I won't be shedding any tears."
England's first World Cup group stage fixture is against Italy in the Amazonian city of Manaus on June 14.
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