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The Quality of the Portuguese Soccer League
Today were confirmed the transfers of two more players from the Portuguese Soccer League abroad. Wietsel and Hulk were transferred from Benfica and FC Porto to the Zenith, from Russia, by grants of around 100 million Euros.
This happens after the transference at the end of the market, August 31th, of Javi Garcia from Benfica to Manchester City by a value of 40 million euros. This season Guarin and Alvaro Pereira, were also tranferred from FC Porto to Inter Milan by values around 25 Milion Euros.
This confirms the value of the portuguese soccer league, as one of the better leagues in Europe. In the portuguese league played former soccer stars as Luís Figo, Paulo Futre, Deco, Michel Preud'Homme and some of the best players of the world as Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Nani or Radamel Falcão.
Confirming the quality of the Portuguese league is the fact that Portugal have qualified this year 6 teams (all) to the group stage of European club competitions, 3 in the Champions league and 3 in the Europe league.
In Portugal are still playing the most promising players in Europe, as Juan Iturbe, the new "Messi", James Rodriguez, Alex Sandro, Danilo and João Moutinho in FC Porto, Diego Capel and André Carrillo in Sporting and Rodrigo and Nolito in Benfica.
All of these players will grow in the portuguese league, because in Portugal there are amazing professionals that transform these young promising players into world class players.
In Portugal we have quality professionals and natural talent to develop soccer stars and if you want to see more, see the portuguese league!
quarta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2012
Washington Post Social Reader sobre PORTUGAL no Euro 2012!
Portugal
didn't fall short again. Really, it somehow managed to do the improbable,
something it has made a habit of doing for more than a decade
now.
"Portugal fails again! Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't take a penalty and the best country without a major tournament trophy crashes out in the semifinals of Euro 2012!"
If we rewrote that with a modicum of perspective it would read: Portugal, incredibly, made another deep run in a major tournament, continuing to overachieve and defy all odds or common sense.
It is easy to pick on Portugal, and many people have. Once again, it failed to win a trophy, this time going out in the Euro semifinals on penalties. Spain edged them from the spot, 4-2, while Ronaldo watched on waiting to take a fifth kick that would never come. The country of Eusébio, Luís Figo, Rui Costa and now Ronaldo fell short once again.
But did Portugal really fall short? Fall short of what expectation? The expectation that a country of 10,000,000 should compete with the likes of Spain, which has a population of 47,000,000? That it should produce as many quality players as 60,000,000 Italians or 81,000,000 Germans?
Portugal has the population of Belgium or Hungary, yet the world expects infinitely more of it. That is a testament not to a team of misfortune and disappointment, as one would think in the aftermath of its loss to Spain, but one of tremendous overachievement and accomplishment.
In the last 12 years, Portugal has done the seemingly impossible. It has become a legitimate world power in a small country with a small population and without a national league that ranks among the world's best. That it is where it is now, an undoubted top 10 team in the world that tournament after tournament is considered a lock to outperform countries with three, four and fives times its resources, is remarkable.
Before 1984, Portugal had only once qualified for a World Cup or European Championships. It pulled a shocker, going to the semifinals at Euro 1984, but it did so by winning just one match the entire time, and when it qualified for the World Cup in 1986, it went out in the first round, winning just one match.
Nobody raised a stink, wondering about the underachieving Portuguese, because a small country of 10,000,000 isn't supposed to do much. It struggled, needing the World Cup to expand to 24 teams in 1982 just to qualify for 1986, and it was considered normal.
Normalcy continued until 1996, the next time Portugal qualified for a World Cup or Euro. It qualified for the quarterfinals that time around, a major achievement and the start of what would be a shift in Portuguese football.
Portugal's "Golden Generation" began to come about in 1996, with Figo, Costa, Paulo Sousa, Joao Pinto and Fernando Couto starting on that team. While it did not qualify for the 1998 World Cup, it went to the semifinals of Euro 2000, qualified for the 2002 World Cup and was runners up at Euro 2004, which it hosted.
Euro 2004 brought about a major upgrade in stadia in Portugal, further revolutionizing the game in the country and the success continued. It went to the semifinals at the 2006 World Cup, the quarterfinals at Euro 2008 and back to the knockout stages at the 2010 World Cup before reaching the semifinals this month in Poland/Ukraine.
The "Golden Generation" changed things in Portugal, with Figo, Costa, Sousa, Pinto and Couto leading the way, but also joined or eventually replaced by Pauleta, Deco, Pepe, Simao, Ronaldo, Joao Moutinho and Nani along the way. It was a complete revolution in Portuguese football that took it from what it should be and had been for decades into this world power that is completely out of place.
Now
Portugal has come up short again, losing to Spain in penalties. It lost to the
reigning World Cup and Euro champions after playing nearly even for 120 minutes
in a semifinal.
Along the way, Portugal gave Germany arguably its toughest match of the tournament and beat Denmark, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. People like to marvel at what the Dutch do in a small country without a power league, but the Netherlands has 50 percent more people than Portugal and every resource that Portugal does and then some. Yet here is Portugal, the disappointments after yet another semifinal.
Portugal has become a favorite whipping boy for the media and fans around the world. Part of that is because of the spotlight that comes with having a true world superstar in Figo and now Ronaldo. Transcendent players bring on high expectations, ones that are usually unrealistically high. That Ronaldo is hardly the most beloved of superstars doesn't make things easier on Portugal, nor does having Pepe, the diving and the whining for which the team has become famous.
There are a lot of reasons that fans wonder why Portugal can't win a trophy and a lot of reasons why people root against them. But there are also a lot of reasons why what the Portuguese have done for more than a decade now is simply mind blowing, and each time it finds its way back to a knockout stage. The norm is the decades preceding 1996, but its sensational play since has made the public forget that.
A country of 10,000,000 people played the defending World Cup and Euro champions to a dead draw for 120 minutes, not luckily, but actually played them toe-to-toe. It took on a country with infinitely more resources in a round and on a stage that countries with those same resources and Spain only dream of making. It did not fail and it did not choke, no matter where Ronaldo stood when Cesc Fabregas' penalty hit the net and eliminated them. Once again, Portugal did the incredible, as it has somehow managed to do time and time again for more than a spectacular decade now.
"Portugal fails again! Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't take a penalty and the best country without a major tournament trophy crashes out in the semifinals of Euro 2012!"
If we rewrote that with a modicum of perspective it would read: Portugal, incredibly, made another deep run in a major tournament, continuing to overachieve and defy all odds or common sense.
It is easy to pick on Portugal, and many people have. Once again, it failed to win a trophy, this time going out in the Euro semifinals on penalties. Spain edged them from the spot, 4-2, while Ronaldo watched on waiting to take a fifth kick that would never come. The country of Eusébio, Luís Figo, Rui Costa and now Ronaldo fell short once again.
But did Portugal really fall short? Fall short of what expectation? The expectation that a country of 10,000,000 should compete with the likes of Spain, which has a population of 47,000,000? That it should produce as many quality players as 60,000,000 Italians or 81,000,000 Germans?
Portugal has the population of Belgium or Hungary, yet the world expects infinitely more of it. That is a testament not to a team of misfortune and disappointment, as one would think in the aftermath of its loss to Spain, but one of tremendous overachievement and accomplishment.
In the last 12 years, Portugal has done the seemingly impossible. It has become a legitimate world power in a small country with a small population and without a national league that ranks among the world's best. That it is where it is now, an undoubted top 10 team in the world that tournament after tournament is considered a lock to outperform countries with three, four and fives times its resources, is remarkable.
Before 1984, Portugal had only once qualified for a World Cup or European Championships. It pulled a shocker, going to the semifinals at Euro 1984, but it did so by winning just one match the entire time, and when it qualified for the World Cup in 1986, it went out in the first round, winning just one match.
Nobody raised a stink, wondering about the underachieving Portuguese, because a small country of 10,000,000 isn't supposed to do much. It struggled, needing the World Cup to expand to 24 teams in 1982 just to qualify for 1986, and it was considered normal.
Normalcy continued until 1996, the next time Portugal qualified for a World Cup or Euro. It qualified for the quarterfinals that time around, a major achievement and the start of what would be a shift in Portuguese football.
Portugal's "Golden Generation" began to come about in 1996, with Figo, Costa, Paulo Sousa, Joao Pinto and Fernando Couto starting on that team. While it did not qualify for the 1998 World Cup, it went to the semifinals of Euro 2000, qualified for the 2002 World Cup and was runners up at Euro 2004, which it hosted.
Euro 2004 brought about a major upgrade in stadia in Portugal, further revolutionizing the game in the country and the success continued. It went to the semifinals at the 2006 World Cup, the quarterfinals at Euro 2008 and back to the knockout stages at the 2010 World Cup before reaching the semifinals this month in Poland/Ukraine.
The "Golden Generation" changed things in Portugal, with Figo, Costa, Sousa, Pinto and Couto leading the way, but also joined or eventually replaced by Pauleta, Deco, Pepe, Simao, Ronaldo, Joao Moutinho and Nani along the way. It was a complete revolution in Portuguese football that took it from what it should be and had been for decades into this world power that is completely out of place.
Along the way, Portugal gave Germany arguably its toughest match of the tournament and beat Denmark, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. People like to marvel at what the Dutch do in a small country without a power league, but the Netherlands has 50 percent more people than Portugal and every resource that Portugal does and then some. Yet here is Portugal, the disappointments after yet another semifinal.
Portugal has become a favorite whipping boy for the media and fans around the world. Part of that is because of the spotlight that comes with having a true world superstar in Figo and now Ronaldo. Transcendent players bring on high expectations, ones that are usually unrealistically high. That Ronaldo is hardly the most beloved of superstars doesn't make things easier on Portugal, nor does having Pepe, the diving and the whining for which the team has become famous.
There are a lot of reasons that fans wonder why Portugal can't win a trophy and a lot of reasons why people root against them. But there are also a lot of reasons why what the Portuguese have done for more than a decade now is simply mind blowing, and each time it finds its way back to a knockout stage. The norm is the decades preceding 1996, but its sensational play since has made the public forget that.
A country of 10,000,000 people played the defending World Cup and Euro champions to a dead draw for 120 minutes, not luckily, but actually played them toe-to-toe. It took on a country with infinitely more resources in a round and on a stage that countries with those same resources and Spain only dream of making. It did not fail and it did not choke, no matter where Ronaldo stood when Cesc Fabregas' penalty hit the net and eliminated them. Once again, Portugal did the incredible, as it has somehow managed to do time and time again for more than a spectacular decade now.
quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012
Cardoso & Amaral Blog Launched
Today (23/08/2012) after participating as co-authors on the blog Fotografia com Futuro, we launch our personal blog, the Blog Cardoso & Amaral, in this blog we will deal with matters of everyday life, things as simple as articles, music, film, video, photography and other matters. This means, this blog will cover events that are happening in our lives or in the world.
In this blog we will use the same platform as the blog Fotografia com Futuro, Blogger.com, we will not own our domain itself because in our opinion there is no such need, so we chose to use a subdomain of blogspot.com to host our personal blog.
Another detail of our personal blog is the use of dynamic views option. Just to emphasize that the chosen design is simple and not elaborate purposefully because we will focus on content!
For now it is what we have, and to see more news from our personal blog just click on link below:
Link: http://cardosoeamaral.blogspot.com
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