Apparently on the verge of signing up to become the new national team boss, Carlos Queiroz is largely an unproven commodity. He did wonders with the “Golden Generation” in winning two World Youth Championships and has looked like a good Portuguese League talent consiglieri for Sir Alex at Manchester United.
However, his stint [...]

I know I asked a question with the “Team of 2010 Tuesday” bit this week, but Quinta-Feira is a time for questions as far as I’m concerned. Therefore, I will wield my universally recognized and feared blogging powers to bring you the following for consideration as you wind down the rest of your Quinta-Feira: [...]

We’ve seen the Dutch dump all over Italy to the tune of 3-0. The Spaniards smoked the Russians 4-1. Sweden pwned defending champs Greece 2-0. Germany’s Polish striker defeated his birth country 2-0. However, and our team is definitely included in this, has anyone really and truly SCARED the shit out [...]

Before I got a chance to post today’s discussion question, faithful commenter Nelson from nyc posted this on yesterday’s WAG:
Greg,
This weekend being “Portugal Weekend” and the only reason I really know that is because it always falls on the same weekend as “puerto rico” day. When I start seeing those puerto rican flags on [...]

Let’s assume for a second that Portugal are going to make it out of the group and into the quarterfinals. Based on past performance, rankings, and expectations, the other logical team to make it out would be the Czech Republic.
However, Turkey proved their mettle and ability in the qualifiers. With two [...]

The twenty three lucky Portuguesians have been selected for the, um… Selecção. Therefore it now makes sense to ask you the reader and Portuga football connoisseur the all important question: Who do you have starting?
Here’s who I’d start (again, throwing some convention to the wind and taking more stock in form [...]

This coming Monday, Phil Scolari will be announcing his list of players to be called into international duty for the upcoming 2008 European Championship. Since this is the last Quinta-Feira before that announcement, I decided it might be prudent to open this question up to all five of my readers.
Here’s my list [...]