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26/08/03
Estrela da Amadora have had a reprieve from relegation. There was a chance that they would go back down to the Segunda, and Naval be promoted in their place, after a controversial last day in the Segunda at the end of the last season (See below). But the Federation's Council of Justice have confirmed the Liga's
Disciplinary Council decision to find for Estrela. Naval stay in the now Liga de Honra. (Second Division)
12/08/03
Shares in Sporting had jumped 8% by midday Tuesday in the wake of the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United, reaching their highest value since February.
The (Banco) BES/ A Bola Cup was formally presented in Lisbon Monday. The idea of the Cup is that when the Três Grandes (FC Porto, Benfica, Sporting) play against each other in the SuperLiga,
they will in parallel be clocking up points for the new Taça. The team that gets the most points will win the Cup, but all points won will also be translated into money for charity, the number of points being
doubled and three noughts added to give the total in euros.
11/08/03
FC Porto won the Portuguese SuperTaça (the winners of the SuperLiga versus the winners of the Taça - in this case finalists of the Taça) by beating União de Leiria 1-0
in the neutral stadium of Vitória de Guimarães, full with 30,000, Sunday. Porto got the only goal ten minutes into the second half, but Costinha scored after UDL 'keeper Helton appeared to have been impeded.
10/08/03
Farense, threatened with relegation to the lowest levels of Portuguese football (see below) have found a loophole: if they fail to turn up for their first two scheduled games in the Segunda B
, they will be automatically relegated to the Third Division, rather than to the District Leagues, which is what would happen if they said they were not going to participate in the Segunda B.
09/08/03
Farense, the 'biggest' club in the Algarve, in the south of Portugal, will be without senior football for at least two years; the club will dedicate itself mainly to coaching youngsters. Farense were
relegated to the Segunda B at the end of last season because of financial problems, but needed to come up with 300,000 euros in debts to former players, who had taken them to court, to stay in the Segunda B.
The club appealed to fans to help with the sum, but all they could come up with was 815 euros (!!). Thus the decision to, in effect, close down the professional side of the club. The Algarve has only one other
currently 'viable' club, Portimonense of the Divisão de Honra, who narrowly missed out on promotion to the SuperLiga last season. The Algarve has a 30,000-seater stadium being built for EURO 2004.
Benfica hope to inaugurate their new stadium in October, Vice-President Mário Dias said Friday.
08/08/03
Sporting's victory over Manchester United helped shares in the club jump by 4.03% on the Portuguese Bolsa to 2.84 euros Thursday.
07/08/03
Sporting inaugurated their Alvalade XXI Stadium Wednesday. There was a lazer show, the Sporting anthem sung by popular Portuguese singer Dulce Pontes and the official opening by
President of the Republic
Jorge Sampaio. The jubilation was taken down a notch with a minute's silence before the kick-off, in remembrance of those who have lost their lives in the recent spate of forest fires in the country. Sporting's team took it back up several notches, beating
Manchester United 3-1 in the friendly that followed the official inauguration (see match reports). The match was also the début for Brazilian international
central defender Anderson Polga, who came on ten minutes from time.
Erwin Sanchez of Boavista and Vítor Pontes of União de Leiria
can continue as coaches for their respective clubs after the Oporto Labour Court declared itself not competent to judge the issue of whether the two were qualified to coach in Portugal.
06/08/03
'Coaches' Erwin Sanchez (Boavista) and Vítor Pontes (União de Leiria), who do not have the required qualifications to be bona fide coaches in the Superliga, will have their cases heard in
Oporto Wednesday
No Portuguese players are on the list of possible 'players of the year' drawn up by UEFA for this past season. The candidates are:
Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Francesco Toldo (Inter Milan).
Defender:
Cristian Chivu (Ajax), Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan), Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid), Lilian Thuram (Juventus).
Midfielder:
Edgar Davids, Pavel Nedved (Juventus), Claude Makelele, Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid), Paul Scholes (Manchester United).
Forward:
Raúl, Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan), Ruud van Nistelrooij (Manchester United), Christian Vieri (Inter Milan).
Farense of the Algarve, relegated from the Segunda to the Segunda B because of financial problems, may have to drop still further to the amateur district leagues if the club does not come up with 300,000 euros by Thursday to pay off debts to the taxman.
04/08/03
Portugal won the Mundialito of Beach Football Sunday, beating Brazil 7-4
in the final in Figueira da Foz in the centre of Portugal. Brazil had held the title for the last five years. Spain were third, beating Uruguay 7-6.
03/08/03
Portugal are in the final of the Mundialito of beach football, currently being played out in Figueira da Foz, in the centre of Portugal. They beat Spain 3-2
Saturday after being 2-0 down, and will face Brazil in the final after they beat Uruguay by the same score.
01/08/03
Boavista celebrate 100 years of existence Friday. The day will be topped off with a friendly against Benfica at the Bessa.
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