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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 – 01/06/09

Monday, June 1st, 2009

In our last Podcast of the season, we cast an eye over this year’s Taça de Portugal Final, won … perhaps inevitably … by FC Porto over first-timers Paços de Ferreira. A single, early goal by Lisandro López, possibly his last for Porto, gave Porto the 6th dobradinha (‘double’) in their history. Phil describes a bit of the atmosphere surrounding the Big Day, and we talk about the controversy regarding the use of the National Stadium (Jamor) for the Final. Elsewhere in the first part, there’s mention of an eerie mist and a tasty but tooth-ruining pão com chouriço.

In the second part, we reveal the listeners’ Top Five Players of the Year (thanks to all those who sent in their votes!) and give our own ideas on Best Players, Best Coach, Best Club … and Worst Hair, among other prestigious awards (trophies delivered to footballportugal Podcast Towers under armed police escort).

And so we leave you for the summer. We’ll be back in late August, at least in written form (here and at www.footballportugal.com.pt), with the podcasts to be resumed in mid-September.

Hope you’ll join us then.

Have a great summer! (… and for those of you in the southern hemisphere … as good a winter as possible …)