Portuguese Football
The Portuguese national soccer team (PSF), Selecção (Selection), is one of the strongest national teams in European football. Unfortunately, the Portuguese national soccer team or any of the clubs have so far not succeeded in a Euro or World Cup win, even their line-up of the class world players such as Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha Nani and Ronaldo also known as Christian. Perhaps this change of Euro 2008.
The home matches ofSelecção are principally in the following phases: FC Porto to play in theEstádio do Dragão, Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon will Estádio José Alvalade. The Portuguese Football Federation Portuguesa de Futebol, or (PSF) was founded nearly a century ago in 1914. A few years later in1923 joined the World Federation of Portugal, the FPF, entered in1954 and then became part ofFIFA and UEFA.
The greatest success that the Portuguese football A-team did was when they celebrated the World Cup ever in 1966 in England, won the title that year. Portugal managed a respectable third place, football star of the sixties a massive Eusebio scored nine goals in the league.
Euro 2004 was a great success in Portugal. They also performed well in European football championships in the summer of 1984,France and the European Football Championship 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands. At the 2006 World Cup, the team included Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha, Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo, but still does not, unfortunately, do the magic again and Portugal managed a respectable placing, finishing fourth.
played in the quarterfinals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, goalkeeper Ricardo performed superbly in the penalty shootout against England. He nowNow holds a record of Portuguese football, the first goalkeeper ever to wear the jersey of the Portuguese national soccer team third in the World Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the Portuguese soccer star who plays for English club Manchester United, which considers the distinction strange that he was the club signed a secret from the media were only paying attention when the stock market became aware of the signature as part of their equity transactions.
Over the past year,Nani joined his good friend Ronaldo at Manchester United. The young player has signed for a reported fee of 14.5 million pounds from Sporting Lisbon in June 2007. He played as a winger and has been for Manchester United this season featured a couple of times and scored the winning goal against Spurs. Nani is known to celebrate a goal with his great acrobatic somersaults worthy of an Olympic gymnast known.