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PortuGOAL.net is a website packed with quality news articles, in-depth features and accurate statistics for fans of Portuguese football and Portuguese footballers.

We intend to inform visitors about all aspects of Portuguese football, at the same time as promoting Portuguese clubs, players and the national team.

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Portuguese football fans have a lot to get excited about these days:

Portugal’s superb runs to the final of the 2004 European Championships and semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup proved the ability of the national team to rub shoulders with the best.

Follow all the international team action at PortuGOAL.net.

Porto’s magnificent double conquest of the UEFA Cup and Champions League in successive seasons, followed by impressive results in Europe by Sporting and Benfica, has brought renewed confidence that the top Portuguese clubs can challenge for European silverware on a regular basis.

Follow the progress of Portugal's club sides in Europe at PortuGOAL.net.

Figo, Ronaldo, Deco, Tiago, Carvalho, Miguel, Pauleta, Meira, and so on and so on. An endless list of Portuguese talents are sparkling the length and breadth of Europe.

Follow the careers of Portugal's finest exports at PortuGOAL.net.

For a relatively small country Portugal has produced far more than its fair share of the world's top football players over recent times. Read detailed profiles of Portugal's top footballers as well as the best foreigners playing in the country.

Player profile section of PortuGOAL.net.

As a direct spin-off of Euro 2004, Portuguese football is far the richer for the seven outstanding new stadiums and three refurbished venues, completely overhauling the old facilities and providing superb conditions to play and watch football.

Follow all the domestic action at PortuGOAL.net.

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Editorial Team

Tom Kundert was born and bred in England and has been based in Lisbon since 1994. Has written for FourFourTwo, soccernet.com, Champions - The official magazine of the UEFA Champions League and a variety of publications and websites as a Portuguese football expert. Now dedicates most of his time to informing the English-speaking world about Portuguese football with the help of an equally dedicated team.

Team: Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon)
Player: Liedson
Best Match: Sporting 4-1 Newcastle, Uefa Cup quarter-final, 2005
Worst Match: Sporting 1-3 CSKA Moscow, Uefa Cup final, 2005



Sean Gillen is based in England. He is a devoted Manchester United fan and a keen observer of the European game. Since joining PortuGOAL.net in February 2006, he has been mainly assigned to cover Portuguese footballers playing outside their home country.

Team: Manchester United
Player: Paul Scholes
Best Match: Juventus 2-3 Man Utd, Champs Lg semi-final, 1999
Worst Match: Man Utd 0-1 B. Dortmund, Champs Lg semi, 1997



Marco Pereira was born and bred in Toronto, Canada. He is extremely proud to be the son of Portuguese parents and speaks the language, although his parents tend to be his toughest critics and argue otherwise. An avid Benfica supporter, he yearns for the day the club will rule the Portuguese league like they once did. Has been with PortuGOAL.net since July 2006 and he aims to help make it the premier English-language Portuguese football site on the Web (if it is not already).

Team: Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Benfica)
Player: Team always comes before individual
Best Match: Any victory over FC Porto or Sporting
Worst Match: Any defeat against FC Porto or Sporting



Andy Brassell has written for Champions, When Saturday Comes, UEFA.com and The First Post as well as PortuGOAL.net, and is the European football expert on BBC Five Live’s Up All Night football phone-in. His book All Or Nothing; a season in the life of the Champions League was published in 2006. www.allornothingbook.com

Team: AFC Wimbledon
Player: Andy Thorn/Dennis Wise
Best Match: Wimbledon 2-1 Watford, FA Cup quarter-final, 1988
Worst Match: Never regretted going to a game, even the awful ones



Catalin Parfene is our Romanian correspondent on the PortuGOAL team. He writes for ProSport and his passion is represented by the foreign players in Romanian football, many of whom are Portuguese. Before his journalistic activity, he taught history.

Team: Dinamo Bucharest, Delta Tulcea
Player: Danut Lupu
Best Match: Dinamo 6-4 Steaua, 1990 / Steaua 2-4 Dinamo, 2007
Worst Match: Some accidents from his favourite team...



Marcelo Carvalho was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he supported Portuguesa de Desportos until he moved to Portugal in 1988. Now he’s a Sporting Lisbon fan, and a close observer of football in all its aspects.

Team: Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon)
Player: Liedson
Best Match: Sporting 5-3 Benfica, Portuguese Cup semi-final, 2008
Worst Match: Portugal 0-1 Greece, Euro 2004 final



Joao Pedro was born in Braga. He studied journalism at Porto University before spending two years in London to hone his verbal and written English skills. Since returning home has never missed a match at the Estadio do Dragao and claims to have dreamt about Porto’s Champions League title triumph one year before the famous night at Gelsenkirchen.

Team: FC Porto
Player: Deco
Best Match: Porto 3-0 Monaco, 2004 Champions League final
Worst Match: Portugal 0-1 Greece, Euro 2004 final



Bruno Baltazar was born in Portugal but raised in USA, Mozambique, France, Spain and England. He is a professional basketball scout and a reporter for several sites such as eurobasket.com. A soccer lover, especially Sporting, but chiefly assigned to cover Porto on PortuGOAL. Also known for his transatlantic love for Latifah that could make for a movie one day.

Team: Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon)
Player: Joao Moutinho
Best Match: AZ Alkmaar 3-2 Sporting (Uefa Cup semi, 2005)
Worst Match: Sporting 1-3 CSKA Moscow, Uefa Cup final, 2005



Lorna Danion is a new member of the PortuGOAL team. Born and raised in Paris with a Portuguese family background, Lorna follows both France and Portugal at international level and puts her wide knowledge of the game on the continent at the service of the site.

Team: Paris Saint-Germain
Player: Pauleta/Rai
Best Match: PSG 2-1 Barcelona, champs Lg quarter-final, 1994/95
Worst Match: Any defeat to Marseille



Paulo Carvalho is using his degree in journalism from the University of Coimbra to enhance the project. An ardent Boavista supporter, he is a recent edition to the PortuGOAL.net family.

Team: Boavista
Player: Petit – motor of the championship triumph
Best Match: Boavista 3-0 Aves, title-clinching win, May 18, 2001
Worst Match: Boavista 0-1 Celtic, Uefa Cup semi-final, 2003

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