http://goal.com/en/news/1863/world-...riker-amauri-i-have-my-italian-passport-now-i He is officially Italian!!! good riddance and have a nice life.
Update on Amauri Law ends Amauri Azzurri dream? Amauri could be forced to wait up to six months for his Italian passport, effectively ending his hopes of playing in the 2010 World Cup. -football-italia .
Portugal had 3 Brazilians on the field at the same time ... Deco, Pepe, and Liedson. That must be a record if you're not ... well ... Brazil. Liedson scored the goal that may have kept Portugal in the race for the World Cup. They are hanging by a thread in 4th place at the moment.
It's all but mathematically impossible for Portugal to take first place in their group now. They can certainly take second, but it won't be easy, and if they do take second they're at the mercy of a random draw - they could, for example, face a playoff with Turkey or France to reach the World Cup.
They need to beat Hungary twice first! and Sweden needs to lose to Denmark, if Sweden wins then its all over for them, and to be honest, the don't deserve to go to the WC. They've been god awful, i hope they don't go either.
Denmark are pretty much qualified. They probably won't even play Sweden that hard. Portugal is pretty screwed.
yeah i agree. unfortunately for our cousins, playing malta and albania are all but assured victories for the swedes. and either way, we'll always hear the conspiracy theories. sweden and denmark are pretty buddy-buddy sometimes. they could just "play" for a draw on purpose. italian conspiracy theorists will say that that happened to them in their group with sweden and denmark.
Yeah I mentioned that a while ago. The FPF is a purgatory for brazilian players. Hulk will not be called up this year by the CBF. I would like him to be tried out. Dunga has his base and would like to see do a scrimmage with some national base players against a 2nd or 3rd tier team to tryout some new talents and workout some bugs. You know a team B.
I totally agree. Hulk unlike most of the team, seems to be the most hungry. but he has a long career ahead of him, I'm hoping to see him more.
That was funny. Leidson gets Portugese nationality last month then immediately scores... their only goal.
As always, our luso cousins are having their heated debate about Portugal being the "Brasil B" team... yet, Deco and Liedson both made goals on their estréias pela seleção portuguesa
The Luso's again saved by another nationalized brazuca Pepe. Pepe and Leidson keeping the pulse alive Portugal. Talk about brazilian irony...Where is the next Eusebio? Will it be Hulk or Leidson.. Cristiano is just has Rivaldo luck with the nt.
hulk just got to portugal a year ago. i think we will call him up after the world cup. the one player we have to be careful not to lose is Ederson from lyon -- juninho's replacement on that team. he's already eligibile for french citizenship and is only 23. he's been in France for 5 years.
Way too many Brasilians on the team. But I was looking through Portugal's demographics. And having 2 Brasilians on the team would actually serve the NT well as it equals the % of the population in the country that are Brasilian and currently residing in Portugal (Close to 1 million Brasilian live in Portugal, mostly in Lisboa and Porto). So in retrospect, its about 10 % of the Portuguese populus lets assume, Portugal has a 23 man roster, 3 Brasilian born players = 13% ...lol..Damn it, we should have stuck with only 2 (8.9%)...we are desperate what can I say. But it is a worrying trend. From my understand there are players in Brasil that have used Portugal as a poker chip so to speak, to get on the Brasilian Seleccao. I have nothing against Brasilians or Brasil, but I do want my Seleccao to be represented by its populous. A worrying trend indeed. In terms of Hulk, well, you guys might want to read this... "Hulk não fecha a porta a Portugal" http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=175890 http://www.record.pt/noticia.aspx?id...0-000000000017 And thats the thing that I have a problem with. A player settling for Portugal rather then wanting to play for the country. In Pepe case, I was happy to have him from the start, I guess the fact that he married a Portuguese women and developed in the Liga Sagres had a part to do with it(He had the NT anthem in his ipod too!). But when you look at Deco and now Hulk, who have declared their goal is/was Brasil primarily...well, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Hulk has only been in the country for 1 year as well... Deco definitely proved his respect in my books after the WC game against Netherlands though with his high flying karate kick
I'd feel the same way, but ...I bet that bad taste will be gone really quick if they ever help Portugal win a competition
Yep. Hes a very hard working player I must admit. He was very often coming all the way back past the half line and helping to retain possession. It was a very nice header for his goal. Simao scored the other 2.