We live in a strange world of bizarre communication habits and patterns. People tend to quit relationships without looking another person in the eyes, doing it with their cell phones.However, it’s new to us that footballers do it now, even to their national teams. Precisely, Liverpool starlet Fabio Carvalho has given up on the Portugal U-21 side with a single SMS message. Captain Bale 100 per cent fit to lead his Dragons at the first World Cup since 1958The attacking midfielder, 20, who joined Jurgen Klopp’s squad in the July transfer window, has played four times for the Portuguese U21s, scoring twice, but has now quit the team with no official reason given for his decision.The Portuguese Football Federation announced the news in a cursory 54-word statement that may mean that Carvalho, who moved to England in 2013 and has captained the Three Lions’ Under 17s, could switch his allegiance. ##EDITORS_CHOICE##The statement read: “A footballer has decided to give up representing the Portuguese Under-21 team.”Fabio Carvalho informed the Portuguese Football Federation, through some SMS messages, that he does not intend to continue representing Portugal at the Under-21 level.”This decision by the player was communicated after the call-up for friendlies against the Czech Republic and Japan was made.”##NAJAVA_MECA_6816561##The wunderkind has played 16 games in all competitions for Liverpool this season, scoring twice, including a 98th-minute winner against Newcastle in August.Carvalho was named in the Portugal senior side’s 55-man preliminary squad ahead of the upcoming Qatar World Cup but did not make the final cut.
