Articles tagged with "porto"
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 ...
Porto Are Champions, But Are They Champions League?
By Greg | May 15th, 2008As 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. ...
It's a Windy City Wednesday
By Greg | May 14th, 2008Since I'm in Chicago today and won't have any time to blog, I posted this video of Porto's Lisandro Lopez for your viewing pleasure. ...
Jornada 30 Recap: Final Whistle Blown On Season
By Greg | May 12th, 2008With the league still smarting from the Golden Whistle punishments handed down on Friday, the players took to the pitch to earn their money finish ...
**Breaking News** The Final / Golden Whistle Punishments
By Greg | May 9th, 2008I know I was kind of toiling in anonymity earlier when I was throwing up an impromptu live blog of the events below, seeing as ...
Jornada 30 Preview: Final Preview of the Season and a Tribute to Rui Costa
By Greg | May 9th, 2008*** Completely Unrelated, Somewhat Breaking News *** The final verdict in the Golden Whistle trial is going to be handed down at around 10:30 Eastern ...
List of Clubs Up To Date on Wage Payments Is Released
By Greg | May 8th, 2008Since there's been a whole huge hullabaloo over getting paid this past season, the Players' Association did us all a favor and released a list ...
A First Look At Summer Transfer Targets
By Greg | May 6th, 2008Every summer, Manchester United (especially recently) and other prominent clubs look to strengthen their teams by purchasing a number of young Portuguese league stars. ...
Jornada 29 Review: Nacional Take Six Points From Porto
By Greg | May 5th, 2008When the boys of Nacional are sitting around the dressing room at the end of the season to discuss what took place over the course ...
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