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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 [...]
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Tags: Benfica, Carlos Martins, Carolina Salgado, Pinto da Costa, Porto, Rui Costa, Sporting, Super LigaBenfica 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 [...]
Portugal Offside’s Player of the Year Is…
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Lisandro Lopez, Forward, FC Porto. Period. End of discussion.
This one for me was a no-brainer. This past season, he shred defenses to the tune of twenty four domestic goals. On a team filled with so many attacking options, he managed to score as many times as the next four [...]
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. [...]
Argentina: Porto’s Own Personal Portuguese Liga
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It’s been discussed ad nauseam that Portugal is, in many respects, a feeder league for much larger clubs from countries such as Spain, Italy, and England. On the other hand, in order to remain competitive both domestically and on the European stage, who can Portuguese teams consider their feeder league? Essentially, who is [...]
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
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In front of what looked like about three hundred people at the Estadio Nacional in Jamor, Sporting won this year’s Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto 2-0 with a pair of extra time goals from late substitute Rodrigo Tiuí (shown left).
The match itself was dominated offensively by Sporting (catch some highlights below), in spite [...]
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