30/01/08Benfica have been asked to pay 3,000 euros for the roughly 200 seats destroyed
by their fans in the weekend's game at Vitória de Guimarães.Vitória de Setúbal coach Carlos Carvalhal, sent off during the weekend's Liga game at Nacional, has been suspended
for 20 days and fined 2,500 euros. According to an international study just published (Viewer Track), last season's Champions League game between FC Porto and Chelsea was the most watched
TV programme of the year in Portugal (4.6 million viewers). 25/01/08 Born 66 years ago in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) in the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique,
Eusébio
da Silva Ferreira is universally regarded as the greatest Portuguese player of all time. When he was 18, the 'Black Panther' or 'King' moved to Portugal and Benfica
where he stayed until almost the end of his career (he also played for Beira-Mar). In the season after his arrival, he helped Benfica to win their second European Cup in consecutive seasons, against Real Madrid in the Final. He played 64 times for Portugal and was the star of their
1966 World Cup campaign where they came third. Happy Birthday, Eusébio! 25/01/08
Estrela da Amadora cancelled training Thursday after the club found it impossible to pay the players their two months' salary that is overdue.
19/01/08 Following the mix-up with the situation of Cameroonian striker Meyong, who played illegally for Beleneneses
at the weekend and will probably cause the club to lose six points, the player has returned to Levante. Meanwhile, the football director Carlos Janela, ultimately responsible for the signing, was assaulted by angry fans outside Belenenses' stadium on Tuesday evening. In the aftermath of the fiasco, Belenenses president Cabral Ferreira has resigned.
In the on-going 'Golden Whistle' corruption scandal, the ex-girlfriend of FC Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Carolina Salgado, told the court Friday that she saw him give
referee Augusto Duarte a 2,500 sweetener before the Beira-Mar v FC Porto game in the 2003/04 season. Salgado also claimed that Pinto da Costa tried to bribe her to keep quiet after they had separated in 2006. Estrela da Amadora's Tiago Gomes was voted top young player for December by the Players' Union. Last week, Boavista's Peter Jehle was voted top senior player. 09/01/08 Former FC Porto coach Co Adriaanse has been ordered by FIFA to pay FC Porto 1.15 million euros
in compensation for unilaterally terminating his contract just days before the 2006/07 season began. His assistant Jan Olde Riekerink will pay 146,250 euros. The Dutch coach had won the Portuguese title for Porto the season before.
Benfica's Katsouranis faces a suspension and fine from the Liga for his behaviour in the game at Setúbal on Saturday in which he faced up to team-mate Luisão
and was seen to direct an obscene gesture at him. The Greek midfielder can also expect diciplinary prodeedings within the club. Luisão is expected to be merely be fined by the club for his part in the incident.
Coca Cola have extended their partnership deal with FC Porto until the end of the 2010/11 season. The partnership began in 1999. 04/01/08 Boavista
are reported to have 173 cases against them currently going through the courts. Debtors include former players, coaching staff, employees, agents and the tax office (owed 1.18 million euros).
A new law prohibiting smoking in enclosed public spaces has come into force in Portugal. The ban affects bars, restaurants and clubs, but not football stadiums
... except for concourses and the executive and directors' boxes. |
