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28/02/05 José Mourinho won his first trophy for Chelsea Sunday when his team, containing the Portuguese players Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira and Tiago
, beat Liverpool 3-2 after extra-time in a taut battle to take the English League Cup at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. Mourinho was, and will be, at the centre of a storm after being
sent off
following Chelsea's equaliser, an own goal by Steven gerrard. He appeared to be making a gesture to silence the Liverpool fans behind the bench, but later claimed that it was a gesture to silence the English press, which, he said, had the knives out after two straight defeats from his side. He also told
Portuguese State TV
channel RTP that he was incensed that the English press had been calling Portugal and himslef "third-world". He said that in England at the moment, there was only one coach who, like him, had won a Champions League: Sir
Alex Ferguson. Mourinho can expect some flak from the English press after his controversial stance and comments. 18/02/05 José Mourinho's image is worth gold in England. The Chelsea
coach, already on a salary reported to be seven million euros a year, will, according to the British daily The Times, make a further 4.5 million
over the next 18 months from advertising alone. A recent one-hour shoot for American Express brought him one million euros. Sporting's Chilean striker Pinilla
has claimed he almost died Monday because of an antibiotic shot administered by the club's medical department. The player was asked if he was allergic to penicillin and he said no. But after the shot, he had a violent allergic reaction and was saved only by further shots to stop it.
Players of the Liga de Honra (second division) side Felgueiras are boycotting training until they are paid four months of salary owing to them. The club is third from bottom of the division.
16/02/05 Former Benfica president João Santos died Tueday, aged 90. He was voted in as president in 1987 and under him, Benfica went to two European Cup finals: against PSV Eindhoven
in 1988 and AC Milan in 1990. (See UEFA article) 15/02/05 Sporting's Brazilian striker Liedson
took his personal goalscoring tally to 18 at the weekend, making him the 14th best in Europe (positions calculated using a coefficient of difficulty of the respective leagues). The top 15
in Europe are: 1. Vincenzo Montella, AS Roma, (Ita), 18 goals
2. Samuel Eto´o, Barcelona, (Sp), 17
3. Thierry Henry, Arsenal, (Eng), 17
4. Andrew Johnson, Crystal Palace, (Eng), 15
5. Marek Mintál, Nürnberg, (Ger), 15
6. Ricardo Oliveira, Betis, (Sp), 15
7. Tomasz Frankowski, Wisla Kraków, (Pol), 19
8. Dirk Kuijt, Feyenoord, (Hol) 19
9. Frode Johnsen, Rosenborg, (Nor), 19
10. Adriano, Inter, (Ita), 14
11. Diego Forlán, Villarreal, (Sp), 14
12. Andriy Shevchenko, AC Milan, (Ita) 14
13. Vjateslav Zahovaiko, FC Flora, (Est) 28
14. Liedson, Sporting (Por) 18
15. Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Zenit, (Rus), 18 (
Portuguese scorers) 13/02/05 Belenenses, riding comfortably in mid-table and only five points away from the European places, have reported a profit for the
financial year 2004 of 493,000 euros, which would have been greater but for extensive work to the club's Restelo stadium. 12/02/05 FC Porto
have entered a press blackout in protest at the summary punishment (three and two games respectively) meted out by the Liga to Benni McCarthy and Seitaridis
for violent conduct (proven via TV images) in two different games recently. The club are unhappy about the arbitrary nature of the punishment. The blackout is expected to last at least until the crucial clássico
against Benfica at the end of the month. Twenty-six coaches from the junior levels of Penafiel have resigned following the appointment of ex-player at the club Drulovic
as chief coach of the juniors. The president of Penafiel is António Oliveira, formerly FC Porto and Portugal coach. Ernie Walker, the Scot who became a familiar face in Portugal in the run-up to the
EURO 2004 tournament on his regular visits as stadium inspector for UEFA, will receive Saturday the Gold Medal
for International Merit from the Portuguese Football Federation. The presentation will be made by the FPF president Gilberto Madaíl in Leiria. 09/02/05 Sporting Braga's offices were broken into
in the early hours of Tuesday morning and a sum of money and a number of tickets for Saturday's game against Benfica
were stolen. The club has warned fans about buying tickets from touts because the stolen ones are apparently easily traceable 08/02/05 Sporting's 0-3 defeat at Marítimo Sunday had its repercussions at
home: the club's share price fell by 5.42% and the vice-president, Miguel Ribeiro Teles resigned. Vitória de Guimarães coach Manuel Machado
has not, after all, left the club, although he recently offered his resignation (as reported here). The recent upturn in the team's fortunes seems to have convinced both him and the fans that he's the right man for the job ... for the moment, at least.
Felgueiras, second from bottom of the Liga de Honra
(second division), are in dire financial straits and may have to withdraw from the championshjip. the players have not been paid for four months, and coach Diamantino Miranda resigned Monday in protest.
04/02/05 Beira-Mar have fired Slovakian defender Marian Zeman. The player allegedly left for his Christmas holidays before time and without permission, and the club immediately set into motion
disciplinary procedures aginst him which have now reached their end. 02/02/05 The man chosen to replace sacked coach Vítor Fernandez at FC Porto is José Couceiro
, up until Monday coach at Vitória de Setúbal. Couceiro, 42, was previously at Alverca and signs for the European Champions on a one-and-a-half year contract. "FC Porto have only one objective for this year - to
be national champions," he said. The deadline has come and gone for the professional clubs to pay the State a total of 18 million euros in back taxes, and the Government has rejected appeals from the
Football Federation and the Liga to re-evaluate the amount. If payment is not forthcoming, the Government will enforce it. 01/02/05 FC Porto and Spanish coach
Vítor Fernandez have parted ways. Brought in to replace Italian Luigi Neri
at the beginning of the season, Fernandez never really left his mark and leaves after an unheard-of third home defeat Sunday in the SuperLiga (against Braga, 1-3). Porto won the Portuguese SuperTaça
and the Intercontinental Cup this season, but were knocked out of the Taça de Portugal and dropped a lot of points in the SuperLiga, which left them in second behind Braga as at Sunday. |
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