Portugal have cancelled all media activity for today after the announcement coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is to take over at Chelsea. The team were scheduled to hold a press conference at 3pm BST at their training base in Neuchatel with the Brazilian expected to answer questions. However, it has been cancelled as the Portuguese try to train their focus on the Euro 2008.

It is the first sign of disruption to Portugal's Euro 2008 campaign after the appointment despite Chelsea claiming they had made a low-key announcement to cause minimum disruption to Scolari's work. The former Brazil coach can expect his training camp to be besieged by the press over the next few days, a development that could undermine the team's ambitions of winning the tournament.

Scolari's side qualified for the quarter-finals in Geneva last night after beating the Czech Republic 3-1. Shortly after the game, it was revealed that the Brazilian had agreed to take over at Stamford Bridge on July 1.

Meanwhile, Acaz Fellegger, Scolari's spokesman, has dismissed suggestions that the Brazilian will struggle to overcome the language barrier.

"Felipe has already worked in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Japan. In all these countries, he communicated in English," he said. "Of course, England is the native country of the language but I can assure you that language will not be any problem. I have been working with him for the last 11 years and I know that he will overtake any possible problem."

Scolari, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, has never coached at club level in Europe, but Fellegger is confident he has enough experience to succeed with Chelsea.

"It is true, he has never worked with an European club," Fellegger said. "But for someone with his experience, working in the Premier League will not be much different to the his previous experiences. Anyone who works in football knows that football has an universal language.

"He will get acquainted easily with the British culture, as he did with the countries where he worked in the past. As you can imagine, he is happy with the fact that he will have the chance to work at Chelsea," Fellegger said