Queiroz ready to call Liedson

I’m for it. We don’t have anybody else ready for the striker spot, and Liedson has played in Portugal for long enough that I can view him as a representative of the country. I believe he would be the solution to our lack of finishing on the attacking end.

I know some people will argue that it should be only people born in Portugal, but take a second and look at many of the other top teams in the world and you’ll find people that were not born in the country they represented. Our greatest player of all time, Eusebio, was not even born in Portugal. Yes, he was born in a Portguese colony that was still under Portuguese control at the time, but nonetheless he still wasn’t born in Portugal. It’s not like someone like Lucho saying “oh, Argentina never gave me a call-up, and i’ve been in portugal for so long that i’ll just play for Portugal”. At Liedson comes from a former Portuguese colony.

Also, I’m sure the people of Italy aren’t that upset that Giuseppe Rossi is playing for them instead of the US. If someone has a desire to represent a country and is given permission by the government and governing soccer association, so be it. Give him that red, green, and gold #31 jersey and see if he can work some magic for us.

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Well, maybe he’s attempting to get the Portuguese strikers players to play better, by having the forgein guy in the team, hopefully that’ll motivate the Portuguese players….nahhh. This is the Portugal we’re talking about.

On a different note, anyone see the goal.com blog thingy in the Portugal team of the decade?

Definitely worth a look, people.

link: http://www.goal.com/en/news/2517/goalcom-teams-of-the-decade/2009/07/22/1392151/portugal-team-of-the-decade-2000-2010

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portugal surely will not qualify for the worldcup because they no longer have quality players apart from cristiano who does nothing with the national team . struggling against small nations !!! how do they will perform against england holland brazil..!! it is better that portugal don’t qualify because it would be a shame !!!you don’t have strikers like van nisterlooy van persie huntelaar kuyt…..compared to holland for example.. deco is too old. etc etc etc i watched their last game against albania and watched holland against norway and the conclusion that all experts know is that portugal is now an awful team with an awful manager.
should be thinking of building a team for euro 2012 or better for wc2014.

Rossi’s parents are both born in Italy and he was born with dual citizenship and spent more years growing up in Italy.

one could argue about Camoranesi, though i beleive his mother is Ialian by birth.

it is an interesting arguement, but i think any player needs to have more of a connexion to a country played for than just living in that country for a certain amount of time.

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portugal a great team now!!!!!!?? i think u r laughing!!! and u r going to play linchtei….tein!!!!! portugal has a miserable trainer, no goalkeepers,only cr in midfield ( deco is zero and benched at chelsea ) and nooo central strikers: postiga …=zero ; hunt is now in milan persie in arsenal kuyt in liverpool …and u ever say that portugal is now a good team.. they will not even qualify to the wc and that will be great for all the people and for us especially!! go holland best team in the world now will be world champions in 2010!

@fares….Hahaha….Totally agree! Go Oranje!!

portugal is terrible i would rate denmark ukraine croatia even uruguay over them. i just dont feel they have balance

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