04/01/08 (Goalkeeper Quim ahead of the difficult trip to Vitória de Setúbal: "We'll have to be Benfica" 13/10/07
Coach Jaime Pacheco hangs on at Boavista: "The players need me." 31/08/07Belenenses president Cabral Ferreira on the news that his club will face
Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup: "We're prepared to overcome this opponent, and if it doesn't happen, never mind." 27/08/07 Benfica's Rui Costa on the arrival of new coach José António Camacho:
"It would be stupid for us players to think that a change of coach will resolve all the problems." 26/08/07 Front page headline in sports daily O Jogo: "Camacho demands shinguards in all
training sessions" 16/08/07 Benfica coach Fernando Santos refuses to bemoan the departure of key players and a spate of injuries that have weakened the team: "The Wailing Wall is in Jerusalem, not at
the Luz." 15/08/07 Rui Costa goes some way to answering his critics with two goals against FC Copenhagen in the Champions League: "I can still serve Benfica" 12/08/07 Izmailov on his winner against FC Porto in the Supertaça: "I've never been so happy" 11/08/07
Real Madrid central defender Pepe commits himself to the Selecção: "Even if I'm called up for Brazil, I will always opt for Portugal" 30/07/07
Benfica's injury prone forward Pedro Mantorras - as positive as ever: "I'm still a phenomenon … within my limitations." 22/07/07 Benfica
coach Fernando Santos fears the worst as rumour has it that his captain may be on his way out: "Simão leaving would be a terrible nightmare" 16/07/07
Nacional president Rui Alves on his team's participation in the new Taça da Liga ('League Cup'):."Our sole objective is to get knocked out as quickly as possible" 12/07/07
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson casts doubts on whether the ¥25-million winger is prepared for the Premiership: "Nani should have stayed at Sporting for another season."
11/07/07 Cristiano Ronaldo's response to the question "Do you think you're the eighth wonder of the world?": "No, I'm the seventh wonder of the world" 11/06/07
Coach Laszlo Boloni, ahead of a possible move to Marítimo: "At this moment I'm at home on holiday, looking after the garden." 03/06/07 Luíz Felipe Scolari on rumours of a move to Chelsea: "It's shooting season – you take a shot and sometimes you get one, other times you don't." 02/06/07
Anderson on his move to Manchester United from FC Porto: "It's a dream the size of the world." 2/03/07 FC Porto coach Jesualdo Ferreira on the return 'home' of former
FCP players Jorge Costa and Aloísio, now head and assistant coach at Sporting Braga, who visit FCP this weekend: "Fortunately, they're not playing!"
25/02/07 Boavista coach Jaime Pacheco on 'The Special One'. "Mourinho is a mental case." (Mourinho had said that Pacheco had "one neuron, and that isn't working" after Pacheco had criticised the way
Chelsea play.) 23/02/07 Placard held up by an FC Porto fan at the FCP v Chelsea CL game: "Vítor Baía - give me your baby!" 22/02/07
Placard held up by an FC Porto fan at the FCP v Chelsea CL game: "Mourinho - give me your salary!" 13/02/07 Dynamo Bucharest director Cristi Borcea upon arriving in Lisbon ahead
of the UEFA Cup match with Benfica. (There was a real earthquake in Portugal on Monday, the strongest in 30 years): "The earthquake will be on Wednesday." 25/01/07
Eusébio, confronted with a review of his career on a This-is-Your-Life-type TV programme, on the occasion of his 65th birthday: "I can't watch this footage any more – I just start crying."
|
