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Besiktas has taken the plate candidate at this junction to Sporting Braga, making a valuable victory in Portugal leaving the Turks with foot and a half in the last 16 of the Europa League.  Solve the series in Istanbul, where the visit will have to score at least two goals to avoid elimination.

In Portugal international played the best match.  Stress and responsibility for the Portuguese. Paulo Bento was playing all out, Cristiano should appear before a grand showcase.  The Lusitanian want to recover the craft and European prestige and for that the first step is to be in Europe next year.

At a press conference and spoke Paulo Bento, Portugal coach, anticipating Friday's game that his team played in Bosnia, for the first leg of the playoffs for the EURO 2012:

Five years ago, in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the selection of Portugal fell to Germany eliminated in a summer that marked the international retirement of an icon by decree Luso, Luis Figo. The end point of reference for all T defended its wide and successful career, he said goodbye without leaving the Portuguese the last representative of the so-called 'Golden Generation', the one that won the World Under 20 in 1989 and repeated two years later in soil. In the case of Figo, who was then exhausted its glory afternoons at Inter Milan, the march was as painful as it had Rui Costa, had already left the team but decided to return. That evening in the Munich Allianz no full stop ...

The selection of Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo has now lost the chance to qualify directly for the upcoming Euro 2012 and, therefore, the play-offs should lusos.

The frightened by Ricardo Carvalho of the Portuguese national team has placed in the pillory. He grabbed his backpack and left the camp in Portugal on tiptoe and without telling anyone. And all because Paulo Bento, coach Luso, did not put the holder in training. Childish mentality that defines a player of 33 years and with a long and experienced career. The worst thing is his complaints point to a fellow Madrid, Pepe, after criticizing another, Cristiano Ronaldo: the first because he was chosen by Paulo Bento to move the ownership and, second, to take the captaincy would fall to him by caps.

Brazil and Portugal will be measured on Saturday the final of the Under 20 World. Both have had a very hard road to get here and then will not suffer so much written off any ball in this electrifying commitment.

Portuguese football has given respite to his triumvirate (Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon), except in rare and unusual occasions. Few have dared to mastering the powerful and powerful clubs in the country and those who have tried have gone cruelly get hurt. One that reflects the daily struggle to look for gaps between the cracks that let the rulers, the Vitoria Guimaraes. From northern Portugal, competing with their 'neighbor' and wrestler Braga (known and unique vie Do Minho Derby) and exploiting their resources with minimal enormous importance, the 'conquerors' want to do the same in soil and explored, the Vicente Calderon.

Spain could not save one of those days where you have more to lose than win. When prestige is at stake between two world champions. Faced with an Italy that needed an injection of optimism in its reconstruction. In front of their passionate fans in Bari that was on the ropes to the 'Red', his reaction and defeat with dignity, conditioned by their defensive problems.

The new Chelsea Andre Villas-Boas, has numerous rumors that will confirm or reject in the coming days, starting the story work that the Portuguese coach is expected. His arrival at the club for his style of play, had put into the arena of possible solutions to one of the players involved with the organization in London in recent years, Ghana's Michael Essien, a player from another court, most destructive role but nevertheless, they have the approval of Mr. Portugal.

Confirmed the unilateral termination of Villas-Boas, who are at the Chelsea in exchange for 15 million euros of its clause, Pinto da Costa resigned his departure until now coach, who won four titles in one season, although he confirmed that his club and looked at the option of Pereira.