Portuguese Football in English
Classics
Profiling Portuguese football greats, momentous matches, iconic kits and stadiums gone and missed.
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Stadiums gone and missed: Campo Grande, home to both Sporting and Benfica in the first half of the 20th century
One city. Two clubs. One stadium. Before the Alvalade. Before the Luz. Before each Lisbon giant enjoyed its state-of-the-art football ground, there...
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FC Porto 3-2 Celtic: classic match revisited as Dragons overcome Scots in thrilling 2003 UEFA Cup final
It is strange, for a club that has won the European Cup trophy twice, that this final is still remembered today by many Portistas as the most...
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Belenenses’ best ever season: 1945/46
There was a time when the Big Three wasn’t actually a thing. The celebrated Club Futebol “Os Belenenses” were considered by everyone in the game as...
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Sporting v Sunderland, 1973: revolution, robbery and two riveting European adventures
Sunderland never played Torreense. That much is true. That doesn’t mean, though, they never played a Portuguese opponent on their scarce European...
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Marítimo 2-1 Porto 1994/95: flashback to when the islanders were the Dragons’ worst nightmare
Death. Taxes. Losing at Funchal. For a short period of time, when Porto was becoming the ruthless and unchallenged powerhouse of Portuguese...
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Braga 3-0 Sporting, 2007: the night Braga came of age
For the past fifteen years, Portuguese football has embraced Sporting Braga as the only natural contender to the so-called Big Three. A second-place...
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Vitória SC’s best ever season: 2007/08
How can a club as big as Vitória SC get relegated? And how does that club immediately bounce back and, in their first season back in the top flight,...
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Profile of one of Portugal’s forgotten greats, João Alves, known as ‘Black Gloves’
Black gloves on his hands, every single match. A ton of genius in his boots. A career forgotten perhaps because the nineteen seventies in Portuguese...
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World Cup veterans prove age is just a number
Football's got a proper obsession with youth—always has. Scouts trawl the globe for teenagers, clubs snap up kids straight out of academies, and...
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Iconic kits: Estrela da Amadora 1993/94
They were back at the very top and it was fabulous. The 1993/94 season was a golden year for the Amadora-based club, which returned to the first...