30/10/06 FC Porto's brilliant young Brazilian midfielder Anderson
fractured his right leg in Saturday's game against Benfica and is likely to be out until the new year. Anderson, 18, was carried off after a crunching tackle by Greek midfielder Katsouranis on 25 minutes.
28/11/06 Around 7,500 club members voted Luís Filipe Vieira back in as Benfica president Friday. Vieira was the only candidate on the ballot sheet.
26/10/06 Beira-Mar made a loss last season of 2 million euros; the figures will be presented at the club's AGM next week. The loss
was mainly due to the club's relegation to the Liga de Honra (2nd tier), with the resulting drop in gate and television receipts. Beira-Mar, with Mário Jardel now in their ranks, returned to the
Liga this season but are struggling to find their form. 24/10/06 Jaime Pacheco
returns to the Bessa to take over as Boavista coach from Zeljko Petrovic, sacked by the club at the weekend. Pacheco joins on a one-year contract. 23/10/06
Boavista and their Montenegran coach Zeljko Petrovic
have parted company after just seven games (two wins, a draw and four defeats, the last two at home and the last one a heavy 0-4 reverse against Nacional Saturday. Mooted to replace Petrovic are Jaime Pacheco
(who would return to Boavista for his third spell at the club), and António Sousa, formerly of Beira-Mar and father of the club's talented but wayward midfielder Ricardo Sousa. The new caoch is likely to be
announced on Tuesday. This is the second so-called chicotada psicológica ('psychological whipping') of the season, Hélio being shown the door at Vitória de Setúbal after just two jornadas.
21/10/06 Gil Vicente, relegated from the Liga to the Liga de Honra as a result of the so-called 'Mateus
Affair', have now received more punishment from the Portuguese Football Federation: the club is banned for one season from competing in the Taça de Portugal, and two of their junior sides are banned from
taking part in their respective championships. 17/10/06 Jorge Costa, ex-captain of FC Porto, announced Monday that he is hanging up his boots, at the age of 35. Central defender Costa spent most
of his career at the northern club, except for spells at English club Charlton and the Belgian Standard Liége, his last club. At the moment of saying goodbye, he said that he was bitter that he
wasn't allowed to finish his career at Porto - former coach Co Adriaanse
considered him dispensable. He is to take time off to be with his family and take his coaching badges, possibly to return to football later as a coach. He has also voiced an ambition to one day be
president of FC Porto. Former FC Porto, Benfica and National Team coach Artur Jorge has joined French club Creteil-Lusitanos
on a three-year contract. Creteil are currently bottom of the French second division. Former Benfica and Brazilian international central defender Carlos Mozer is set to sign as coach for Angolan club
Inter Luanda on a two-year contract. Mozer's other coaching experience was under José Mourinho at Benfica. 11/10/06 FC Porto finished the 2005-06 season with a loss of 30.4 million euros
. Porto won the Portuguese title and the Taça de Portugal, but they were knocked out of the lucrative Champions League at the group stage. Gil Vicente
have opened up disciplinary proceedings against their Angolan player Mateus, who did not return to training Tuesday after international duty in Angola at the weekend. Mateus' registration as a Gil player last
season was at the root of a prolonged legal battle and the club's relegation to the Liga de Honra, with Belenenses escaping the drop. 05/10/06 Benfica's Rui Costa
will be out for up to a month after he aggravated a thigh injury in his return against Desportivo das Aves (4-1) at the weekend. The player at the root of the recent controversy of relegation from the Liga (see
general news of other months), Gil Vicente's Mateus, is in Angola to represent his country in CAN 2008 qualifiers. It is believed that the player is unlikely to return to the norhtern club, claiming that he is
psycholigically unfit. |
