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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 LigaQuarta-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 [...]
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. [...]
Tuesday Trainer Tidbits
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I’m sorry about the headline, really I am. I’m just so into alliteration lately that I can’t contain causing conflagrations and cacophonies of concurrent consonant… [shit, quick, someone give me a hard 'c' word for sound!].
The news day is a bit slow on the league front, with the Champions League final to [...]
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 [...]
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
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The climax of the season is upon us, as this Sunday’s Taça de Portugal final will be contested between Paulo Bento Box’s second place Sporting and Geraldo Rivera’s Jesualdo Ferreira’s first place Porto in Jamor at the Estadio Nacional.
The match itself represents the last shot at salvaging some sort of silverware this season [...]
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
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As we are all well aware at this point, Porto were “punished” for their involvement in match fixing and referee bribing during the 2003/04 season. The investigation, initially called “Golden Whistle” and then “Final Whistle” (kind of a Desert Shield/Storm type of thing) when the decisions were handed down, yielded a six point penalty [...]
Convenient Alliteration Day: Transfer Tuesday
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Concerned that all league-related news would be overshadowed by the naming of the twenty three brave Portuguese (Cape Verde, Brazilian, Congolese, etc) players that Phil Scolari will be bringing to the Euro 2008 finals this year, I drank a bit and struggled to come up with some content for today’s blog. I also [...]
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
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With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish out the end of a controversy-filled season. Here’s how it all shook out:
Nacional 1 - 2 Belenenses
Braga 2 - 1 Académica
Naval 0 - 2 Porto
U.d.Leiria 1 - 1 P. Ferreira
Leixões 0 - 1 Marítimo
Sporting 2 - 1 Boavista
Benfica 3 - [...]
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