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Rangers set for Portugal training camp as Braga also name dropped for pre-season meetup

Premiership winners Rangers appear set to travel to Portugal for a pre-season training camp after one of their opponents unveiled the plans.

The Ibrox side are set to play a glamour friendly against Arsenal on July 17 but that's all fans know of as far as close season action goes.

But now it appears Steven Gerrard and his title heroes are set to take on a number of teams in the Iberian country, which has been given the green light as a safe travel destination this summer by the UK Government.

The meetup is actually being organised from Denmark however, as Danish paper Der Nordschleswiger reports Superliga side SonderjyskE are behind the plans while their sister club, Lisbon outfit Casa Pia AC, will act as hosts.

With the Danish season beginning in mid-July, it's likely the camp could take place before Rangers can expect to have their Euro 2020-bound stars such as Borna Barisic and Nathan Patterson back from the summer tournament.

SonderjyskE director Klaus Rasmussen told the German-language paper: "We will do a summer training camp in Portugal for the first time and visit Casa Pia. This is a training camp that is 100 percent financed by (SonderjyskE owner Robert) Platek.

"We will meet Glasgow Rangers and Braga in Portugal."

Rangers overcame Braga in the 2019-20 Europa League in a heroic comeback from 2-0 down to emerge 4-2 aggregate winners.

They finished fourth in Liga NOS this season while SonderjyskE ended the Danish campaign in eighth.

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