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footballportugal Podcast – 23/11/09

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

A two-part podcast after a week’s break, focussing on the past weekend’s Taça de Portugal fourth round ties and Portugal’s successful World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In the Taça, Sporting’s new manager Carlos Carvalhal got a victory from his first game in charge of the Leões, but only after quite a scare as their opponents, Pescadores da Costa de Caparica, went into the break with a 1-0 lead. Sporting’s Lisbon rivals Benfica were dumped out of the Cup at home to Vitória de Guimarães thanks to a goal from Gustavo Lazaretti. There were other shock exits, too, with Leiria, Leixões and Académica all being defeated by lower league opposition.

In part 2, we talk about Portugal and Bosnia-Herzegovina. We ask just where Raul Meireles found his form after playing so poorly all season, and why did the Bosnian football authorities show such disrespect to Portugal?

Please let us know your thoughts about the podcast and give us your predictions for this weekend’s Lisbon clássico (Sporting v Benfica).

Thanks for listening,

Steve and Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – 16/02/09

Monday, February 16th, 2009

There was a spectacular, goal-filled weekend in Portugal this jornada, so we’ve decided to concentrate on the fantastic strikes of Fábio Coentrão for Rio Ave at Porto, Ruben Amorim and Angel Di Maria for Benfica against Paços de Ferreira at the Luz, and last but not least, Fréchaut scoring the goal of the weekend into his own net in Braga’s 0-1 home defeat to Leixões. Rui Borges scored a well-worked team goal to earn Trofense a draw against Naval, coming back from two down. And finally, we report on Diakité’s well-worked elbow to Fábio Rochembach’s head in Sportng’s impressive 1-2 away win at Belenenses. The elbow produced a torrent of blood from Rochembach’s head, the like of which hasn’t been seen since Jack Nicholson screamed “Here’s Johnny!” in The Shining.

In part two we cast our eye over Portugal’s far-from-impressive victory against an ageing Finland side in a friendly game played in the Algarve last Wednesday. Phil’s reluctantly sceptical about Portugal’s chances of qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and with good reason; time is running out to prepare for the big match against Sweden at the Estadio do Dragão on 28th March.

Do keep your comments coming in … and let us know what your favourite fish is, and whether dourada or robalo is bream.

Thanks for listening!

Steve and Phil

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footballportugal Podcast – 20/10/08

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The thrill of the Cup is upon us once more as Portugal experiences the third round of the Taça da Portugal. Steve attends Fabril Barreiro versus Olivais e Moscavide and comes back singing the praises of the experience, together with a few songs of the Olivais e Moscavide claque, the Moscaknights, who cheered their team on to a 0-1 away victory and into the draw for the 4th round. Joining them, just, will be Benfica, who scraped through on penalties against impressive second division (third tier) outfit Penafiel at the Luz. Liedson returned to his scoring ways for Sporting against Leiria, and Tarik Sektioui returned to the scoresheet for Porto against Sertanense.

In part two it’s inquisition time as we take a look at Portugal’s poor displays in the World Cup qualifiers against Sweden and Albania and the aftermath.

Finally, in part 3, we have a few bits and pieces taken from the sports dailies to report, like luxury Figo watches and A Bola trying perhaps a little too hard to get Cristiano Ronaldo the FIFA World Player of the Year award.

Feel free to leave any messages about the podcast; we always like to read them and will definitely reply (time permitting). Otherwise, all non-public questions, doubts, complaints, comments, suggestions etc. can be sent to the usual e-mail address: info@footballportugalpodcast.com

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footballportugal Podcast – Supertaça & New Season Special

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Welcome back to another season and another podcast. As regular listeners will have come to expect, this podcast is in three parts and aims to bring you up to date with the new 2008/2009 Portuguese football/soccer season.

In Part 1 we review Sporting’s 2-0 Supertaça victory against FC Porto (the Supertaça is played between last season’s Champions and the Taça de Portugal winners). The best team definitely won, Yannick Djalo scoring both goals to defeat what looked like a very much weakened Porto side still trying to recover from the loss of José Bosingwa and Paulo Assunção. Beyond the two Supertaça finalists, SL Benfica have assembled a group of new and exciting players and finally look a bit organised thanks to the modern techniques of coach Quique Flores. Although they lost last night’s first ever Eusébio Cup to Inter Milan on penalties, the future is certainly looking bright for Benfica.

In Part 2 we look at the outside contenders for the Liga title, Vitória Guimarães and Sporting Braga. Neither team were particulalry impressive in European competition this week, and with Porto’s cold shouldering of Guimarães, the family of Dom Afonso look a lot weaker team than they did last year, and with the addition of Benfica rejects Luis Filipe and Nuno Assis, one can only fear the worst for Guimarães. On the other hand, Braga seem rejuivenated, stealing Portista Alan from their neighbours and rivals and making shrewd signings in Meyong and Eduardo. Alongside the great and somewhat psychotic manager Jorge Jesus, they are definitely the team to watch this season.

In Part 3 we look over Carlos Quieros’ first squad as National Team coach and give our opinions on whether he is the right man for the job.

Please leave any comments you might have via the message function on the site, and if you have any queries about the podcast you need us to answer, contact us by e-mail at info@footballportugalpodcast.com .

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footballportugal Podcast – end of season farewell

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

It’s the podcast after the morning after the morning after the morning after the morning after the night before, as we get together way after the event to discuss the aftermath of Portugal’s lacklustre performance in their Euro 2008 quarter final defeat to Germany. 3-2 was a kind result for a team who looked more interested in next season’s club contracts than fighting to take Portugal on to European glory.

In part 1 of the podcast we pour a special amount of scorn and discontent on the performances of Ricardo Carvalho and King of the Frangos, Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo. Beyond the criticism of the players, we analyse Scolari’s positive impact on the Selecção and chat about the possible successors being bandied about by soon-to-be-leaving FPF president Gilberto Madail.

In part 2 we cover the recent club news in Portugal. Portistas are as happy as can be as UEFA shift their stance on their Champions League exclusion and let them back into the competition. Not only that, but they’ve managed to buy one of their enemy Benfica’s star players: the Uruguayan Christian Rodriguez. Benfica have to settle for never-ending rumours about second-rate players who may or may not join the Encarnardos for the start of next season. We also discuss the prices of season tickets for various clubs in Portugal for the 2008/09 season.

Finally, with this being the final podcast of the 2007/08 Portuguese football season, we’d just like to say a huge OBRIGADÍSSIMO to everyone who has listened to the podcast regularly, posted comments or sent e-mails of support, written about us on message-boards and blogs and generally just supported what we are trying to do. This has been a labour of love for the past 6 months and we really are paid back by the positive feedback we receive. If you want to contact us over the summer, you can by e-mail at info@footballportugalpodcast.com or by the comments section here.

Have a great summer, boas ferias and we’ll be back for the beginning of the new season.

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