Tonel in the National Selection

Tonel wasn't called to the national team for almost two years.

The defense of Sporting reached its first and only international on November 15, 2006, the city of Coimbra, in a 3-0 victory against Kazakhstan. The game counted for the preliminary qualifying competition for Euro-2008.

Scolari put him to hold, but left at 75 minutes to give rise to Jorge Andrade.

Now, it takes the injury to Ricardo Carvalho to again be invited, this time by Carlos Queiroz for the double-shock of qualification for the World Cup, versus Sweden and Albania. Twenty-three games later.