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30/12/08
The Portuguese media revealed on Monday the top earners in the domestic game last season. Ricardo Quaresma, then at FC Porto but now at Inter Milan, heads the list. There were five Porto players in the
top ten:
Ricardo Quaresma (FC Porto), 2,135,224.91 euros
Nuno Gomes (Benfica), 2,040,711.78
Lucho González (FC Porto), 1,652,882.23
Liedson (Sporting), 1,571,888.68
Lisandro Lopez, (FC Porto), 1,380,489.03
Hélder Postiga (FC Porto), 1,360,320.41
Katsouranis (Benfica), 1,327,186.68
Helton (FC Porto), 1,231,515.63
Anderson Polga (Sporting), 1,196,172.88
João Moutinho (Sporting), 1,002,313.68
As the end of the year approaches, Romanian website Onlinesport has reported on the number of foreigners playing in the domestic league: 186. Of those, the biggest group, with 31 players, is …
Portuguese. There are 28 Brazilians.
29/12/08
Vietnam are South-East Asian Champions after drawing 1-1 at home to Thailand; they had won the first leg 2-1. Vietnam are coached by the Portuguese Henrique Calisto, 55, who has won
titles with the Vitnamese club Dong Tam and in Portugal coached teams such as Boavista, Académica and Leixões.
25/12/08
The Spanish Football Federation officially announced on Tuesday its intention to stage the 2018 World Cup jointly with Portugal.
20/12/08
The Public Prosecutor is to investigate a report from the stock exchange that Benfica's share price was manipulated in July 2007 when a Chinese consortium was reported to have made a bid for
shares in the club at a price which caused the actual value of the shares to go up.
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