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footballportugal Podcast – 14/07/10

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Welcome to our 84th footballportugal podcast, which, because of personal commitments, is sadly going to be our last for the foreseeable future. But we bid you adieu with a two part podcast, analysing Portugal’s progress in the World Cup and the various transfers that have been going down in the Portuguese pre-season.

In part one, we discuss the positives and negatives of Portugal’s World Cup campaign. Where can Portugal go now after a fairly lacklustre tournament?

In part two, we look at João Moutinho’s shock transfer from Sporting to FC Porto and try to find words to describe Benfica’s payment of €8.5 million for Atletico Madrid’s third choice goalkeeper.

Thanks for all your comments and kind words over these <sniffle> two and a half years, but please do keep in touch on the website, which we’ll continue to monitor.

Thanks VERY much for listening. If you’ve enjoyed it half as much as we have … then we’ve enjoyed it twice as much as you. 

Cheers!

Steve and Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – World Cup Preview

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

It’s a two part special podcast this time around. The first part will focus on the Selecção, who are trying to recover from the unfortunate news that Nani has injured his collar-bone attempting an overhead kick … or has he? We’ll talk about Portugal’s warm-up games, the strange injury to Nani and the prospects of the team of all of us in the first half of the podcast.

In part two we concentrate on the movements of coaches between clubs in the top flight of Portuguese football. The highest-profile move is that of 32-year-old André Villas Boas from Académica to FC Porto. We’ll give our opinion on his and Porto’s chances, and the chances of the other teams in the league.

Do let us know your views on these subjects.

And thanks for listening.

Steve & Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – 19/05/10

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

A later than normal podcast concentrating on the weekend’s cup final and our annual awards ceremony for the best players of 2009/10.

Porto managed to beat Chaves in the Taça final 2-1, it was a poor performance and a rather disappointing way to say goodbye to Bruno Alves, who had a dreadful day on and off the pitch in what will probably be his last game for the club. Chaves did themselves proud and looked anything but a team who’d just been relegated to the third tier of Portuguese football.

In part two we give the results of our listeners’ player of the season whilst also presenting our favourite players and matches of the year. We also talk a little bit about Portugal’s terrible training kit.

Let us know what you think of our players of the season and for keep those comments coming until the next podcast, which should be sometime at the beginning of June.

Thanks for listening,

Steve and Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – 10/05/10

Monday, May 10th, 2010

A season-ending, penultimate podcast celebrating all things benfiquista, as the Águias finally secure their 32nd Portuguese league title with a scrappy 2-1 win against 10-man Rio Ave. Braga could only draw with Nacional in Madeira, so Benfica would have won the title regardless of the result at the Luz. Steve was at the game and Phil was flicking between channels; we give you our verdict on whether Benfica’s success was acquired by fair means or foul.

In part two, we cover the other games of the weekend, including Marítimo’s smash and grab raid to Guimarães, beating them 1-2 to claim the final European qualifying place against all expectations. We also congratulate Beira Mar and Portimonense, who will be playing in the top flight next season after winning promotion from the Liga Vitalis.

In part three we discuss the surprises in Carlos Queiroz’s Portuguese squad, which only includes one Benfica player and no João Moutinho.

Finally, we ask all listeners to send in your votes for the footballportugal podcast player of the season award. Please send your top 5 players of the season, ordered from 1 to 5, to our e-mail (info@footballportugalpodcast.com). Votes need to arrive before 4pm on Monday 17th May.

Thanks for listening,

Steve and Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – 03/05/10

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Benfica’s champagne remains on ice as Porto give them a whipping on the pitch. Off the pitch, Porto’s fans throw blue paint and stones at anything Benfica associated, whilst on and off the pitch, they’re throwing anything they can get their hands on at the Benfica players and coaching staff. What remains uncertain is just how many Porto supporters had played a round of golf before coming to the game? We talk about the clássico, Braga’s title challenge and Leixões’ defeat at Olhanense in part one.

In part two we concentrate on the second tier, with the Liga Vitalis really coming to a very exciting head; any one of five teams can be promoted next weekend. As well as the Vitalis round up, we mention the rumours currently in the press regarding managerial switches and players possibly moving clubs.

Please keep the comments coming. We’ll be back next Monday, the Pope’s visit permitting.

Thanks for listening.

Steve and Phil

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