20/12/05 FC Porto president Pinto da Costa, asked for his response to Felipe Scolari's comments re the non-call up of Vítor Baía and João Pinto: "As a matter of principle, I
don't respond to cowards." 19/12/05 Inter's Luís Figo plays it cagey: "Portugal can win the World Cup." 18/12/05 Coach Luís Norton de Matos leaves strife-torn Vitória de Setúbal:
"Enough is enough." 17/12/05 Banner held up by Braga claque Red Boys before their home game against Académica: "What will it take for Sporting Braga not to be robbed? Money? Trips? Prostitutes?
Violence?" 14/12/05 Striker Hélder Postiga takes a sideswipe at coach Co Adriaanse as he parts for St Étienne: "I don't confuse FC Porto the institution with some of the people
who work there." 12/12/05 Erstwhile FC Porto captain Jorge Costa, on his way to Standard Liége of Belgium, responds to FCP coach Co Adriaanse, who had said: "Jorge Costa was once a
good player ...: "At least I have a past ..." 09/12/05 Luíz Felipe Scolari on the World Cup draw that puts Portugal up against Mexico, Iran and Angola: "We can't complain."
06/12/05 Eusébio's plea to the players ahead of what was to be an historic victory for Benfica over Manchester United: "Make history, boys!" 03/12/05 Front page headline of A Bola
after Sporting get 1-1 draw at FC Porto:
"Lions' sweat puts out Dragons' fire." 30/11/05 FC Porto fans unfurl a banner with tricky winger Ricardo Quaresma in Hogwarts uniform.: "Harry Potter!"
26/11/05 Nacional coach Manuel Machado after his team go top of the Liga: "First we're going to think about staying up." 24/11/05 FC Porto's Dutch coach Co Adriaanse:
"I'm very happy and I'm staying until 2008." 18/11/05 Gil Vicente coach Ulisses Morais after his team's 2-0 Liga defeat at Vitória de Guimarães:
"They committed thirty thousand or so fouls." 14/11/05 Manuel José, Portuguese coach of Egyptian club Al-Ahly, African Club Champions:
"I don't like them to call me 'The Egyptian Mourinho' ". 10/11/05 Félix Mourinho on his son, José: "His arrogance isn't arrogance - it's professionalism!" 08/11/05
António Figueiredo, president of cash-strapped Liga de Honra club Estoril Praia, predicts trouble ahead for Portuguese football: "Before the start of next season, between 10 and 20 clubs from the Liga
and Liga de Honra are likely to close their doors." 06/11/05 Inter Milan's Luís Figo, in an interview with Spanish sports daily Marca, yearns for cosier times at Real Madrid:
"I miss my breakfasts with Raúl." 04/11/05 A stroppy FC Porto coach Co Adriaanse questioned on the consequences (i.e. possible sacking) of a defeat against Paços this weekend: "Paços de Ferreira will
have three more points, and Porto won't have any." 01/11/05 Players' Union president Joaquim Evangelista warns that the cash crisis at Vitória is not an isolated case:
"Vitória de Setúbal is just the tip of the iceberg." 27/10/05 Benfica coach Ronald Koeman on Naval counterpart Manuel Cajuda in an on-going war of words ahead of their Liga meeting: "I
don't know him and I don't want to know him." 21/10/05 Front page banner headline of weekly tabloid Tal e Qual, on Cristiano Ronaldo's sexual accusers."They're prostitutes!" 20/10/05
Vitória de Guimarães coach Jaime Pacheco on the match officials after his side lost 1-2 in the UEFA Cup at Russian club Zenit: "After so much work, so many kilometres and so much
dedication, it's a shame that three people spoiled the show." 19/10/05 Player's agent Jorge Mendes on Cristiano Ronaldo's situation following the police's questioning of him over accusations
of sexual assault: "It's all a product of the young girls' imagination and fancy." 17/10/05 Sporting president Dias da Cunha grasps at straws to explain away Sporting's dire run of form: "Some of
Sporting's results are down to the press we have in Portugal". 16/10/05 Sporting claque Juve Leo
unfurl a banner during the home defeat to Académica, letting the powers that be know what they think of things given the current crisis at the club: "Mediocre Directors, Incompetent Coach, Soul-less Players - This
is not our Club!" 30/09/05 FC Porto coach Co Adriaanse gets defensive following Porto's humiliating Champions League defeat to Artmedia: "The fans have to be patient. If they
whistle and wave white handkerchiefs ... I'm leaving." 29/09/05 An RTP commentator, as Wender kisses the name 'Lucas' tattooed on his arm after scoring for Sporting against Halmstad: "And
Wender dedicates the goal to Lucas - I hope that's his son." 26/08/05 Brazilian striker Luís Fabiano, now of Seville, speaks of his passage through an unstable FC Porto last season:
"I was on a ship adrift on the high seas." 10/08/05 Sporting president Dias de Cunha gets into training for the new season, commenting on Sporting 0-1 Udinese:
"The refereeing was perfectly disgraceful!" 04/08/05 An ironic Luís Figo ahead of his signing for Inter Milan after a bitter departure from Real Madrid: "Let's see if I can still play a bit."
03/08/05 FC Porto's Jorge Costa, asked about his position at the club after being left out of the squad for Amsterdam: "I haven't stopped being captain." 28/07/05 Leo
Lima, released from FC Porto on the say-so of Dutch coach Co Adriaanse, throws a couple of darts back over his shoulder: "Brazil are five-times World Champions. Holland have nothing. The Brazilian school is better,
no discussion." 24/07/05 Sporting's new striker Deivid sets his sights high for the new season: "I hope to score 32, 33 or 34 goals." 20/07/05 FC Porto president Pinto da
Costa rejects the possibility of the club's stadium being re-named for commercial purposes: "No money in the world would buy the name of the Dragão." 05/07/05 Benfica president Luís Filipe
Vieira on the representatives of full-back Miguel, in dispute with the club: "There are gangsters in this country." 25/06/05 Sporting president António Dias da Cunha on the troublesome Brazilian
striker who has yet to confirm he is staying at the club: "Liedson is certainly not going to be another Jardel." 24/06/05 South African striker Benni McCarthy, sowing the seeds of a transfer
out of FC Porto: "If it hadn't been for Mourinho, I would have left long ago." 17/06/05 FC Porto will hope their new signing Anderson has significantly more qualities than this:
"If I had one per cent of Ronaldinho's qualities, I'd be very happy." 14/06/05 FC Porto striker Claudio 'Pitbull' on times at Brazilian club Grêmio, before he came to Portugal: "I didn't use to
celebrate my goals by imitating a dog ... but when I scored, the crowd would start barking ..." 09/06/05 Fighting talk from Benfica's new coach Ronald Koeman: "I came here to win!"
(...
although he gave himself an escape clause later on when he said he couldn't actually promise the title for next season). 17/05/05 CSKA Moscow coach Valeri Gassaev ahead of the UEFA Cup Final in Lisbon:
"We haven't come here to take part in Sporting's celebrations." 16/05/05 Benfica coach Giovanni Trapattoni ahead of the crucial Benfica v Sporting clash:
"Let's see who deserves to be Champions." 06/05/05 Coach Co Adriaanse, confident that his AZ Alkmaar would beat Sporting and go to the UEFA Cup Final at Alvalade; they didn't:."On the 18th, I'll be
back in Lisbon." 28/04/05 National Team coach Felipe Scolari on possible complaints from players about the late World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Slovakia at the end of May/beginning of June:
"No one's obliged to play for the Selecção. They just have to send a letter and I won't call them up." 21/04/05 Boavista coach Jaime Pacheco after his side crashed out of the Taça
at Vitória de Setúbal: "Many of my players are fathers, and I don't like to see fathers crying. Many of them are crying." 20/04/05
Vitória de Setúbal coach José Rachão after his side went through to the final of the Taça de Portugal: "I'd like to thank my parents (who have both passed away), my wife, my children, my brothers and sisters
and my in-laws (who have also passed away)." 17/04/05 Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira: "If we're champions, the country, not to mention the world, is going to stop." 30/03/05 Felipe
Scolari reiterates the importance to the national team of Luís Figo, currently taking an extended break from international football: "The Selecção needs him, even if he's 40 or 50." 18/03/05
RDP radio comentator on the state of some of Middlesborough's fans before the UEFA Cup tie at Sporting: "Bacchus would have been proud of them." 10/03/05 Estrela da Amadora coach Toni on hearing that
his side face Benfica in the semi-finals of the Taça de Portugal: "We have a one percent chance of going through." 23/02/05 FC Porto's new coach José Couceiro ahead of his first ever Champions
League game, against Inter Milan: "I'm not in the least bit nervous." 07/02/05 Referee Pedro Proença defends himself after being accused by Sporting Braga players of verbal abuse during the game
against Vitória de Guimarães at the weekend: "I don't use that kind of language." 29/01/05 Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira
responds to criticism that the club could not secure the signing of Argentinian Maxi Lopez, who signed for Barcelona: "Benfica is no ice cream parlour, buying Super Maxis or Cornetos left right and centre ..."1
7/01/05 FC Porto striker Hugo Almeida, at Boavista until the end of the season: "It's a pain to be loaned out." 13/01/05 Carlos Alberto, released by the club, on FC Porto's
Spanish coach Vítor Fernandez: "I don't think he likes Brazilian players." 08/01/05 FC Porto coach Vítor Fernandez, asked what he would like the result of the Sporting v Benfica derby to be:
"I'd like them both to lose." 07/01/05 Benfica's Petit, not in favour of technological solutions to aid refereeing decisions: "One of these days we'll have robots playing football"
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