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The Fourth footballportugal Podcast

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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Welcome once again to our special “clássico” podcast. As weekends go in Portuguese football, you’ll rarely find one as exciting as this and that’s why we’re running a little bit longer than normal.

Part 1 reviews the weekend’s games, specifically Sporting’s shock 2-0 demolition of Porto . We’ll let you know what we think about Porto ’s Brazilian international keeper, Helton, and I’ll have to eat my words regarding Paulo Bento’s faith in Sporting’s 19 year old goalkeeping prospect Rui Patrício. Kind words will be heaped upon Oscar Cardozo as his two goals helped Benfica beat Vítória de Guimarães 1-3 in Guimarães, but Phil doesn’t like the attitude of Benfica president Luis Filipe Vieira. Also, shock of shocks, Leiria won (as I predicted), beating Académica 3-1.

Part 2 reviews the January transfers, or rather lack of them, and looks at the possibility of Portugal ’s new goalscoring hope, Makakula, joining Benfica on Tuesday (29/01/08).

Part 3 concentrates on the “Selecçao” and Luíz Filipe Scolari’s recent comments that Miguel Veloso’s arse may be a bit too big to fit on the bus to the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland this summer.

As always, don’t hesitate to contact us by either leaving a comment or by e-mailing us at info@footballportugal.com

The podcast will be a little bit late next week because it’s Carnival weekend, so don’t expect the fifth podcast until Wednesday 6th February.

Thank you for listening.

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The Third footballportugal Podcast

Monday, January 21st, 2008

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Welcome back to the third footballportugal podcast, probably the only place on the internet where you can hear two guys speak in English for over half an hour about Portuguese football (or Portuguese soccer, as our American listeners may prefer it).

In Part 1 we’ll be reviewing this weekend’s Taça de Portugal results. There were few surprises, Benfica struggled, Porto groaned and their fans managed to aim a few boos at their disgruntled footballing genius, Ricardo Quaresma. What’s more, Sporting scored four goals. There’ll be an in depth report on the Estrela Amadora Vs Sporting Braga game, along with some frank opinions on whether anyone really cares about the Taça de Portugal.

Part 2 will focus on the poor attendances at games in Portuguese football. Today’s edition of the daily Portuguese sports newspaper “a Bola” dedicated its first 4 pages to try and find a reason why attendances are so poor in Portugal. We’ll be summarising what they had to say and also offering our own tuppence on this matter.

Finally, in part 3, we’ll answer the question of the week (keep ‘em coming, e-mail: info@footballportugal.com) and previewing the weekend’s upcoming fixtures, most notably the clássico between Sporting and FC Porto next Sunday at 8 o’clock. We’ll also have a quick debate on bum advertising, can it ever be a good thing for the game?

We hope you enjoy this week’s podcast and please feel free to give us any feedback, either here on the site or by e-mail.

Thank you for listening.

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The Second footballportugal Podcast

Monday, January 14th, 2008

It’s our pleasure to present to you our second podcast. This time we’ve split it into three parts in an attempt to appear more organised.

Part 1 reviews the weekend’s results, amongst which were Benfica’s disappointing 0-0 home draw to Leixões, Porto’s 4-0 destruction of Braga and the continuing saga of the Sporting crisis with their 1-1 away draw to Académica. In amongst this we’ll explain what a “trivela” is and the connection between grilled chickens and dodgy keepers.

Part 2 finds us trying to explain why Porto have been so dominant in Portugal over the past two decades, the iron fisted rule of Pinto da Costa and their “Claque” (Ultras group) the “Super Dragões”, allegations of corruption in the Golden Whistle scandal and their prospects in this year’s Champion’s League competition.

Finally, in Part 3, we review last week’s Carlsberg Cup results, preview next weekend’s Taça de Portugal games and try to address whether Brazilians naturalised as Portuguese players are a good thing for the Portuguese national team.

Lastly we’d like to apologise for any sound problems that may have occurred during the podcast (bumping of microphones, popping, hissing and the rumble of passing No. 28 trams), we hope they don’t distract you from the show.

As always, if you wish to contact us you can do so by e-mail which is: info@footballportugalpodcast.com

Thank you for listening.

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Welcome to the First footballportugal Podcast

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

It’s a pleasure for us here at footballportugal to bring you our first ever podcast. It will be recorded every week and uploaded here sometime late on Monday evening. Each week we’ll discuss the weekend’s results, the main stories being reported in the Portuguese football press and any other odds and ends that might have caught our attention.Our first podcast is a slightly shambolic affair, we apologise for the varying sound levels, incessant rambling and copious amounts of verbal ticks, but with time we expect to improve.

On this week’s podcast, we discuss the big fight between Luisão and Katsouranis of Benfica in their away draw at Vitória de Setúbal, Carlos Parede’s exit from Sporting and the increasing pressure upon trainer Paulo Bento after their 2-0 away defeat to Boavista. Porto keep winning and we’re heaping the praise upon Sunday’s match-winner, Raul Meireles, a.k.a “syringes”, and we’ll be describing in minute detail the own-goal of the season, scored by Ricardo Esteves of Marítimo in their 2-1 home victory over Leixões. Last but not least, we’ll be telling you what a “chapéu” is in Portuguese football and why the Vítoria de Setúbal forward Cláudio Pitbull would’ve liked to have made one for Benfica goalkeeper Quím this weekend.

Please contact us with any questions you may have on our new e-mail: info@footballportugalpodcast.com

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