Portuguese Football in English
Classics
Profiling Portuguese football greats, momentous matches, iconic kits and stadiums gone and missed.
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Benfica 5-1 Real Madrid: one of Benfica and Eusébio’s greatest ever European nights revisited
Everyone knows about how Benfica came from behind to beat Real Madrid in the 1962 European Cup final, the night the football world finally...
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Stadiums gone and missed: Amorosa in Guimarães
Guimarães is the beating heart at the soul of Portuguese football. The game is felt differently in the town that gave birth to the nation. It...
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The great José Travassos, a player ahead of his time
Zé da Europa, a nickname that forever defined Portugal’s first recognised football star abroad. There had been great players before him, but none...
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Iconic kits: Gil Vicente 1999/2000
Nobody knew it then, but when the 1999/2000 season kicked off, Gil Vicente were about to experience their most memorable campaign ever. And who...
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World Cup 2002 revisited: Pauleta hits memorable hat-trick against Poland amidst a disastrous failure for Portugal
It was supposed to have been the tournament that consecrated the Golden Generation of Portuguese football into worldwide royalty. It ended up being...
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Iconic kits: Sporting 1987/88 – Hummel’s brief but lasting impression
A new dawn began in the summer of 1987. For the very first time in the history of Sporting Clube de Portugal, the club would play an entire season...
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Portugal’s 10 Best Football Managers, Ranked
Portugal has become a prodigious incubator for talented managers. Four or five decades ago, Portuguese football coaches were viewed in a poor light...
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Stadiums gone and missed: Braga’s 1º de Maio
It is funny how Braga hosts one of the most lauded football grounds built in Europe over the past two decades, but still, many feel a sense of lost...
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Benfica vs Sporting 2000/01 – the night Mourinho’s Benfica bettered Sporting and changed Portuguese football forever
It was one of the most important games in the history of modern Portuguese football, only nobody knew it at the time. In one stroke, it defined the...
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World Cup 1986 revisited: Madness in Mexico, Portugal 1-0 England, and all that chaos
In the second in his “World Cup revisited” series, Portuguese football historian Miguel Lourenço Pereira focuses on one of the most remarkable...