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Want to get into Portuguese football this upcoming season? Aside from reading this blog… we’ve got goals.
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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 [...]
Mourinho Returns to Portugal
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Well, kinda. Inter Milan and Benfica have announced today that they will be squaring off in a preseason match that will be the inaugural Eusebio Cup encounter.
In the future, they hope to make the tournament a four team affair. Whether or not Porto participate in later iterations will be determined based [...]
Category: 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 [...]
Portugal Out of Euro = No More League News Neglect
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I’m sorry if the past few weeks have left you, my eleven faithful readers, feeling like the cheap whores that Patrick Bateman abused. However, between me covering the the national team over on our sister site and the dearth of league news as a result of our half faux hawk, half mulleted eye shadow [...]
Category: Super LigaClub Football… EURO… Club Football… EURO… Hmmm…
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Over the past week my beloved New Jersey has been hit by a hell of a heat wave. I’m an air conditioning and refrigeration salesman. Care to guess who’s been busy the past week? The company’s so busy that I was on a roof in Newark yesterday in my “sales garb” helping [...]
Category: Super LigaForça Portugal
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You want a League blog when the Euro starts tomorrow? Ridiculous requests are reserved for my wife. And she’s already asked me to watch The Notebook with her today, so my daily ridiculous request quota has been fulfilled.
Category: Super LigaPortugal 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 [...]
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