Articles tagged with "porto"
Workweek In Review: 8/11 - 8/15
By Greg | August 15th, 2008Since I only blog during the week (sorry, I get even MORE drunk on the weekends than on work days, so I probably couldn't even ...
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Preview
By Greg | August 15th, 20082008 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira Sporitng v. Porto August 16, 2008 @ 4:15 PM Eastern Estadio do Algarve, Faro, Portugal Preview These teams finished 1-2 (well, Porto ...
What we've learned...
By salvatore | August 11th, 2008Well, with two European friendlies down and one more to go tomorrow, a few things have started to make themselves clear about this latest version ...
Some Benfica Bits and Times, They Are A Changin'
By Greg | August 5th, 2008Benfica 2 - 1 Vitoria Guimarães -- Benfica have had an exciting transfer period with a round of crappy pre-season results thrown in. Before ...
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink late winner? I've heard that story...
By Matt | July 27th, 2008Celtic's final Portuguese test of the pre-season came against an actual Portuguese team, Porto. Of course there's some other history between Porto and Celtic ...
Celtic v Porto?!
By Matt | July 26th, 2008I do not think that many Celtic supporters have the belief that during the UEFA Cup final, Porto's...well...ease to fall let us say, cost Celtic ...
Fun Foto Filler Friday: Porto Sign a Superhero
By Greg | July 25th, 2008The photo of a human above is that of Porto's newest signing, Brazilian-born Tokyo Verdy striker Givanildo Souza, aka "The Hulk." While both "Hulks" ...
Pedro Mendes?
By j | July 24th, 2008The Daily Record is reporting that Walter Smith is entering talks with Portsmouth to bring in stylish midfielder Pedro Mendes. The twenty-nine year-old ex-Porto man is ...
Blogging in a Black Hole
By Greg | July 22nd, 2008The title says it all. I decide it's a great idea to come back in March of this year and hit ya'll off with ...
Do You Buy Into The "New" Benfica?
By Greg | July 17th, 2008In the past fifteen seasons, Benfica have won only two league championships and two league cups. After this most recent, disastrous campaign when they ...
Final Decision Handed Down On Porto's Champions League Participation This Year
By Greg | July 15th, 2008After a whole ass load of "they're in" and "they're out" conjecturing, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has informed UEFA that in spite of ...
Mini-Transfer Update
By John | July 9th, 2008Nothing major to report on the transfer front. Most of the info from Inara's last transfer post is still up to date. Here's the latest: ...
Porto Release "New" Home Kits and Vomit Inducing Turquoise / Sea Green Alternates
By Greg | July 8th, 2008Porto released their "new" kits today for the upcoming season. You can click the links contained in the post to be taken to footballshirtculture.com ...
We Have A League Fixture Schedule. Yay.
By Greg | July 7th, 2008This evening in Portugal, grown men dipped their hands into bowls filled with balls and determined the schedule for the upcoming season. Once they ...
Steaua to rejoin Champions League
By Rob | July 5th, 2008This season it looked like UEFA was going crazy, banning teams from the Champions League, left right and centre. First Porto, then CSKA Sofia and ...
Rui Costa's Successor Is....
By Greg | July 1st, 2008Carlos Martins. The Portuguese (somewhat) international will be the next to wear the #10 shirt for Benfica and, hopefully for them, usher in a ...
Benfica and Guimarães Didn't Hear No Bell
By Greg | June 27th, 2008In the spirit of Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey, Benfica and Guimarães refuse to acknowledge a final bell signaling a knock out. Apparently there is ...
Quarta-Feira Quantum Leap
By Greg | June 25th, 2008Like I mentioned yesterday, most of the Portuguese footballing world (including myself) was so enraptured with the Euro that league news turned into middle of ...
Porto Back In 08/09 Champions League, Officially
By Greg | June 16th, 2008UEFA have announced that due to a procedural snafu in handling the case, they can not examine the overturning of the appeal before the start ...
Porto Not Out of the CL just yet.
By Rob | June 13th, 2008After standing up to FC Porto and kicking them out of the Champions League, UEFA has decided to annull that descion and start again. After the ...
Steaua to follow Porto out the CL door?
By Rob | June 11th, 2008This news is a few days old, but forgive me, there has been a small tournament going on that has my attention. Anyway, last week ...
Portugal Offside's Player of the Year Is...
By Greg | June 5th, 2008Lisandro Lopez, Forward, FC Porto. Period. End of discussion. This one for me was a no-brainer. This past season, he shred ...
Porto Out of Next Season's Champions League
By Greg | June 4th, 2008There's no way of putting it other than what the title suggests. As a result of the information submitted to UEFA by the Portuguese ...
Porto are Kicked OUT of the Champions League
By Rob | June 4th, 2008Despite winning the league of Portugal, FC Porto will not be able to play in the next Champions League UEFA ruled this morning. If you ...
Top 10 Freestyle Tricks of 2007/8
By Daryl | June 2nd, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhSXMY1pV74[/youtube] This video does exactly what it says on the tin. #10 Nathan Dyer (Southampton) #9 Ricardo Quaresma (Porto) #8 Frank Songo'o (Sheffield Wednesday) #7 Ricardo Quaresma (Porto, again) #6
The Euro Pwns Your League News
By Greg | June 2nd, 2008For 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, ...
Who's Going to the 2008 Euro?
By Greg | May 29th, 2008Now that the final teams have been set, we can make a list of the fourteen players from the Portuguese Liga who will be representing ...
Argentina: Porto's Own Personal Portuguese Liga
By Greg | May 28th, 2008It'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 ...
Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting 2 - 0 Porto
By Greg | May 19th, 2008In 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 ...
Preview of the Taça de Portugal Final: Sporting CP v FC Porto
By Greg | May 16th, 2008The 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 ...
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