Benfica
Presidential Beat Down
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Benfica President Luis Felipe Vieira left a meeting last night under duress after he refused to entertain discussion from a number of fan groups.
Benfica are widely recognized as one of the world’s most publicly supported clubs. Benfica pride themselves on the fact that, in spite of not playing in one of the [...]
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Rui Costa’s Successor Is….
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Carlos Martins. The Portuguese (somewhat) international will be the next to wear the #10 shirt for Benfica and, hopefully for them, usher in a new era of success.
Martins arrives after a spell with Spanish La Liga side Recreativo Huelva who finished just two points shy of relegation this past year. While [...]
Benfica and Guimarães Didn’t Hear No Bell
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In the spirit of Rocky Balboa’s trainer Mickey, Benfica and Guimarães refuse to acknowledge a final bell signaling a knock out. Apparently there is no stopping them in their quest to get Porto the hell out of European competition for the upcoming season. After UEFA recently granted Porto a stay of execution and [...]
Quarta-Feira Quantum Leap
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Like I mentioned yesterday, most of the Portuguese footballing world (including myself) was so enraptured with the Euro that league news turned into middle of the rag afterthoughts for the most part. For now, here’s wuzzup wit da “Big Tree” since we’ve last hugged via fiber optic arms…
F.C. Porto – Continue to raid [...]
Porto Back In 08/09 Champions League, Officially
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UEFA have announced that due to a procedural snafu in handling the case, they can not examine the overturning of the appeal before the start of the next edition of the Champions League tournament. If they ultimately decide that any sanctions are necessary, they will be applied to the following season. This leaves [...]
Porto Out of Next Season’s Champions League
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There’s no way of putting it other than what the title suggests. As a result of the information submitted to UEFA by the Portuguese football ruling body, UEFA have decided to suspend Porto’s participation for one year in the Champions League competition.
From what I can tell based on a number of sources [...]
The Euro Pwns Your League News
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For the next month or so you can pretty much expect a quick run down of a number of league-related stories coming out of Portugal, mostly not entirely huge and then the occasional big deal. The European tournament is throwing a sabot in this whole “Having shit other than the Euro to write about” [...]
Who’s Going to the 2008 Euro?
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Now that the final teams have been set, we can make a list of the fourteen players from the Portuguese Liga who will be representing their countries in SwissAustria this summer. I’ll give you one guess as to what country the majority of players who have been selected from the PORTUGUESE Liga are from. [...]
Summer Transfer Targets, Benfica Trio Edition
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I have already highlighted a handful of a few Portuguese league guys who I think are probably on their way out (one already went; Bosingwa to Chelsea) this summer. While those were the most probable, biggest and most reasonable names, that doesn’t mean that there still isn’t further talent in the league to [...]
Category: BenficaQuique Sánchez Flores Has A Job Until October
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Which is the month in which Benfica will probably start their coaching carousel of hiring former bosses who took the team virtually nowhere.
I sincerely hope that Rui Costa takes his job and his pride seriously and gets this team headed in the right direction. This first hire seems to be doing just that.
Quique Flores is [...]
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