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Charlie Key Roche Is The New Portugal Boss

For the next four years, Carlos Queiroz will be stepping out of Sir Alex Ferguson’s massive shadow at Old Trafford and onto the sidelines as the manager of the Portuguese National Team.

The deal, worth around three million Euros (which is like sixty eight billion US dollars at this point), will see Queiroz at the helm for the 2010 World Cup as well as the 2012 Euro. Barring any massive failures, of course. At this point massive failures would be a group stage exit at either tournament. Qualifying should be viewed as a given right now, as our profile in the world has risen considerably in the past two decades. To not make either tournament would be a major setback and a catastrophe that no head of the Portuguese Football Federation could possibly see through and justify keeping him on.

I’m not enamored with the move, but this is kinda sorta like a “there’s no one else astronomically awesome out there right now” type of choice, so I’m okay with it. Hell, if he wins silverware then I’ll shave the guy’s fucking back and spread Nutella all over him for all I care.

Crissy loves the guy and keeping your star happy is pretty important, so I’m sure that had some part to do with this. FPF president Gilberto Madail claims Queiroz was his first choice, so the spin coming out of the FPF is obviously an overwhelmingly positive one. It’s not as if they were chasing five or six guys who all chose to go elsewhere. They got a Chop with a positive youth coaching history and a murky senior team CV. Until the first tough friendly August 20th against the Faroe Islands in Aveiro, we won’t know much more of what to expect.

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By AJ | July 11th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
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I’m felling 50-50 at the moment about this. On one hand he’s the guy who’s basically the next big thing next to Sir Alex at Manchester at the moment. A lot of lessons and insights from a great coach. On the other hand, I just have this has Steve McClarenism written all over it.

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By AJ | July 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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*this feeling it has

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By GD | July 13th, 2008 at 12:25 am
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i’m now wondering with queiroz’s appointment if portugal will go with a similar setup to man united’s , it really would benefit portugal and ronaldo to have him as true midfielder like he is with manchester , rather than the ” wing forward ” postion he’s been playing under scolari and if they will go with two strikers up front , like rooney and tevez , ronaldo’s link up play and crosses are much more effective when he’s got 2 strikers up front

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By Dino Coletti | July 17th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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well..only time will tell!!

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