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footballportugal Podcast – 29/09/08

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Welcome back once again to the podcast. After just four games, the Portuguese league is looking tighter than it has for quite some time. The Lisbon derby is the main topic of conversation in part 1 of this week’s podcast, with Benfica beating Sporting 2-0 in an enthralling clássico at the Luz. Porto beat Paços de Ferreira 2-0 in front of a half-empty Estadio do Dragão and Nacional blow the chance of going three points clear at the top of the table after being convincingly beaten by Lito Vidigal’s Estrela da Amadora, his brother Luís starring. We’ll review these games and all the others that took place at the weekend.

There’ll be a bit of politics in part 2, inspired by João Pinto’s appearance as a political commentator on the weekly current affairs show Bom Dia Portugal Semanal.  We talk about some of the many connections between politics and football in Portugal. Politicians such as Pedro Santana Lopes, Fátima Felgueiras, Alberto João Jardim and Valentim Loureiro will come under scrutiny, on the whole unfavourably, all using or having used football to further their political careers.

Finally, in part 3, we preview this week’s European fixtures, give some dodgy betting tips and look ahead to next week’s clássico between Sporting and Porto.

As always, keep your comments coming! We always welcome your feedback and the chance to discuss the opinions you have of the show, good or bad. For anything else that is for our eyes only, you can contact us by e-mail on info@footballportugalpodcast.com.

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footballportugal Podcast – 23/09/08

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

We’re back and raring to go after our three-week intervalozinho. However, not much has changed since our last podcast with Nacional and Sporting still setting the early pace, both winning 2-0 against Guimarães and Belenenses respectively. One thing that has changed is Steve’s opinion about Rui Partrício, who had an impressive performance at the weekend. Naval are behind Nacional and Sporting in 3rd place; their 3-1 victory over Trofense brought about the first managerial casualty of the season with “Toni” Conceição making his way to the Centro de Emprego rather than the training ground this week. All of this will be discussed in Part 1.

In Part 2 we review Leixões’ impressive 2-0 victory against Braga, taking them into fourth place.  It’s a game for heroes and villains, with the magnificent Wesley our Superman and César Peixoto our Joker. Académica are in fifth place in the league, with a 1-0 win over Setúbal and FC Porto are languishing in sixth place after being held to a draw by the current stone in the shoes of the Grandes, Rio Ave.

In Part 3 we talk about Paços de Ferreira and Benfica’s 3-4 thriller, Benfica holding on for their lives with Quim looking uncharacteristically shaky between the posts. Tenth-placed Amadora draw 0-0 with second from bottom club Marítimo, who were also defeated 0-1 by Valência in the UEFA Cup last week. We also talk a little about the Portuguese Cup 3rd round draw and pick the winner of the competition we had in the last podcast (Answer: Vítor Baía’s shirt number in his second spell at FC Porto was 99).

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footballportugal Podcast – 02/09/08

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

With one clássico, two jornadas and three bifanas under Steve’s belt, we’re just about ready to deliver the next instalment of our podcast about Portuguese football/soccer.

In part 1 we cover the two big games of the weekend. Firstly we review Sporting’s impressive 1-0 win away to Braga. Both teams look strong but it was a more aggressive and focussed Sporting Clube de Portugal that came away with the three points. João Perreira loses a little of our respect by stamping on João Moutinho’s inner thigh. Moutinho had only just recovered from a ball being blasted at his nether regions moments before the incident, so it wasn’t the greatest of nights for him. Apart from the battle of the Sportings we review Benfica and Porto’s 1-1 draw at the Luz last Saturday. Benfica suffered from a lack of fitness and fingers are pointing at the new Spanish fitness coach, Pako Ayesterán, who seems to have the ideas but not the practice. We’ll give an appraisal of the brilliant Lucho Gonzalez and Steve will apologise for being so hard on Maxi Pereira last season.

In part 2 we’ll look at the other games that were played over the weekend. Belenenses and Paços de Ferreira play out an exciting 2-2 draw which upset the home team and eventually led to the resignation of Belenenses president Fernando Sequeira. We go over the details in full and also talk a little bit about the structure of the club. Nacional’s 2-1 win over Naval mean they put a halt to Porto’s 1007 day dominance on the top spot of the Portuguese Liga and Leixões get back on the winning path with a 2-1 victory away to newbies Trofense.

In part 3 we’ve got a competition, thanks to www.portuguesefootballmemories.com who are going to give a DVD of any Benfica v Porto game of your choice if you can answer the question set at the beginning of Part 3. Send your answer to info@footballportugalpodcast.com. We’ll then look at the transfers that have happened in the Portuguese Liga and with Portuguese players in other parts of Europe before looking forward to Portugal’s upcoming games against Malta and Denmark. We’ll also look at who the Portuguese club sides will be facing in the UEFA Cup and Champions Leage.

Due to the international games and hiatus in the Liga programme, our next podcast won’t be until 22nd September or thereabouts.

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