Rui Costa retires

03:28 AM, Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Legendary Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa has brought an end to his illustrious career at the age of 36. The Lisbon-born Rui Costa impressed Benfica legend Eusebio at the age of ten to win a place in the capital club's youth setup. In 1991 Costa won the youth world cup with... Posted by Bobby · Comments (0) Topics: rui costa,Serie A,SuperLiga,Portugal,Benfica,AC Milan,Fiorentina,UEFA

Boavista relegated in alleged bribery scandal

09:27 PM, Friday, 09 May 2008

Boavista have been relegated as punishment for their involvement in an alleged bribery scandal, in addition FC Porto have been docked six points due to the alleged involvement. As Panteras, champions of Portugal in 2001, were relegated following a "unanimous"... Posted by Bobby · Comments (0) Topics: SuperLiga,Portugal,Boavista,FC Porto,UEFA

The sleeping beauty is (finally) awake

01:35 PM, Wednesday, 28 February 2007

It was December and it looked like Porto was destined to win the Superliga, again. Then Sporting started to lose points with disappointing draws, last one just on Friday against Desportivo das Aves, placed last in the Superliga, when the two teams offered a quite boring performance. After this dr... Posted by LaViz · Comments (3) Topics: SuperLiga,Benfica,FC Porto

Portuguese Liga: the battle for the 2nd place

09:03 PM, Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Stadium Mata Real: Paços de Ferreira – Sporting 1 – 1 Paços de Ferreira obtains a suffered draw, while Sporting wastes a lot in the last 40 meters. This game could have ended in an easy victory for Sporting, if only its strikers would have taken advantage of the many errors of Paços de Ferreira... Posted by LaViz · Comments (0) Topics: Portugal,SuperLiga,Benfica,FC Porto,portugal

The Summit Approaches

06:13 AM, Sunday, 26 November 2006

Group E: There was talk earlier this month of Mahamadou Diarra's contribution to Real Madrid. The exact question was "What exactly does he do?". Well, he was never brought in to liven up the proceedings with attacking guile and eye catching flair. He was brought in to do the dirty work. ... Posted by Arjun · Comments (2) Topics: England,Premier League,Arsenal,Manchester United,France,Ligue 1,Italy,Spain,Champions League 2008,Scotland,Premier League,Serie A,La Liga,AC Milan,Real Madrid,Lyon,Celtic,Portugal,SuperLiga,Benfica,FC Porto,Russia,Russian Premier League,Germany,Bundesliga,CSKA Moscow,ac milan,aek athens,anderlecht,arsenal,benfica,celtic,cska moscow,dynamo kyiv,fc kobenhavn,hamburg,lille,lyon,manchester united,porto,real madrid,steaua bucharest