Articles tagged with "super-liga"
Not to be outdone by Rivals Porto, Benfica Introduce Their New Kits
By Greg | July 9th, 2008As Porto rolled out their "new" home and sea green away kits yesterday, Benfica also made sure not to be late to the party and ...
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 ...
I'd Make This Into A TV Advert for The Blog If I Had Any Cash...
By Greg | July 3rd, 2008Want to get into Portuguese football this upcoming season? Aside from reading this blog... we've got goals.
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 ...
Mourinho Returns to Portugal
By Greg | June 30th, 2008Well, kinda. Inter Milan and Benfica have announced today that they will be squaring off in a preseason match that will be the inaugural ...
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 ...
Portugal Out of Euro = No More League News Neglect
By Greg | June 24th, 2008I'm sorry if the past few weeks have left you, my eleven faithful readers, feeling like the cheap whores that Patrick Bateman abused. However, ...
Club Football... EURO... Club Football... EURO... Hmmm...
By Greg | June 13th, 2008Over the past week my beloved New Jersey has been hit by a hell of a heat wave. I'm an air conditioning and refrigeration ...
Força Portugal
By Greg | June 6th, 2008You want a League blog when the Euro starts tomorrow? Ridiculous requests are reserved for my wife. And she's already asked me to ...
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 ...
Out of Commission for the Afternoon
By Greg | June 3rd, 2008I managed to make it in today and got my infinitely more important Portuguese Euro team blog done this morning. However, I think my ...
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, ...
The Wasteland That is League News
By Greg | May 30th, 2008Wow. What an absolute "poo" day for League news coming out of Portugal. As is to be expected, the Euro is dominating the ...
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 ...
The Mourinho Situation
By Greg | May 27th, 2008With such a dearth of decent domestic league news in Portugal today, I decided I might as well throw my two cents in on the ...
Quique Sánchez Flores Has A Job Until October
By Greg | May 23rd, 2008Which is the month in which Benfica will probably start their coaching carousel of hiring former bosses who took the team virtually nowhere. I sincerely hope ...
One for Two Ain't Bad and Shameless Self/Cross Promotion
By Greg | May 22nd, 2008I'm sorry. I trolled the nets for any real relevant news in between swigs of Gatorade and handfuls of Advil, but the Portuguese press ...
It's Champions League Final Wednesday, Hooray!
By Greg | May 21st, 2008This basically means that all other relevant football news is put on hold for the next twenty four hours, as well as any relevant though ...
Tuesday Trainer Tidbits
By Greg | May 20th, 2008I'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 ...
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. ...
Convenient Alliteration Day: Transfer Tuesday
By Greg | May 13th, 2008Concerned that all league-related news would be overshadowed by the naming of the twenty three brave Portuguese (Cape Verde, Brazilian, Congolese, etc) players that ...
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 ...
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