Portugal Soccer

In La Liga Portugal soccer action Sporting Lisbon and Guimaraes took advantage of Benfica’s drubbing at the hands of Academica de Coimbra.  Guimaraes now holds second place and Sporting third, the last place eligible for Champions Cup play.  Leixoes, who lost to Sporting, dropped into relegation territory while Pacos de Ferreira defeated 9th place CD […]

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This weekend Guimaraes tied Paços de Ferreira in La Liga action.  This leaves Guimaraes vulnerable to losing its 3rd place position going into the final week of soccer action in Portugal’s main professional league.  Guimaraes is being closely trailed by Sporting Lisbon who faces lowly Leixoes in its final soccer match-up of 2007-2008.  Guimaraes must […]

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Organizers of the Euro 2008 have asked countries to impose travel bans on known soccer hooligans to prevent them from attending Euro 2008.  Sounds pretty laughable, actually, but the organizers of the soccer event in Austria and Switzerland have put forth such a request.  It is expected that 2 million fans will enter the countries […]

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