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I guess I missed those, need to check out, specially the Galician, it’s one of my favorite regions (next to catalunya and extremadura) and I love their language, people when speaking Galician always sound super nice :-) from which region are you btw?

This is cool! Are you gonna do this for each region? im passing only through euskadi and castilla y leon this time but in June I’m thinking of doing a “vuelta” via all 15 Spanish regions so those traditional songs would give a nice soundtrack for the trip :-)

I will answer this after my voting is announced on the day of the final hehe only thing I can say is that I have my 12 song stuck in my mind for days 😃

Btw i'll be crossing Spain on the way home in a couple of weeks (decided to go on a train/bus journey to lisbon from the netherlands hehe) so i might pass at some of the host cities of this years contest

Voted! This was a difficult one because i find most of the songs ok but not especially good so it was hard to choose which would get more points. BUT i have to say that my 12 is a big one and i can not see any other song winning but that one, is so addictive!!

For the first time in history!! Seeing portuguese women's football some years ago and seeing it now... really happy for our girls

I knew it wasn’t gonna happen but I secretly hoped Stiekem from Maan would be the Dutch entrance this year hehe maybe I’ll share it on the festival of music (if that’s allowed, not sure 🤔)

omg Belinda! I had such a crush when I was younger, loved her first songs and the one with Andy y Lucas 😃

I don’t know if it is because my musical taste already became too Dutchy or it’s just a bad year but I can’t find any Portuguese song I actually like from last year. There are some nice ones but it’s mostly due to lyrics so I don’t think they’re worth sharing. So I’ve decided to do something that might be unique (maybe?) which is send a music where the author is not alive anymore. This is a song from Sara Carreira, who actually participated in a TISC some years ago, but that died in 2020 in a car crash with only 21 years old. This song was composed originally by her but was never released while she was alive, until this last year, where some parts that were not finished yet were added by three other singers: her two oldest brothers and her dad. I choose this song as it is sad and beautiful at the same time.

Btw for those who don’t know, this is from a really nice (to me at least haha) Spanish song from los del rio, the macarena guys

“Sevilla tiene un color especial!” por supuesto Portugal is in 🇵🇹 Spain is probably the nation I’ve visited the most during my life (have family there and spent all my summers there during my childhood and teenage years) so I can’t wait to “visit” it yet another time as for the contest it’s always a bit difficult for me the anual edition (due to not be living in Portugal for 6 years now) but I’ll find something out I’m sure

I think is impressive how Portugal managed to do such a good World Cup, especially when you know how “football only” the country is, really happy for those guys! And if you don’t believe me when I talk about the unfairness of treatment of other sports, even when they do an amazing tournament like this one, just try to find out yesterdays match news on the front page of our daily sports newspaper….

Roberto Martinez was officially announced as the next national manager of Portugal. Its the third time a foreigner becomes head coach of Portugal, but the other two were Brazilians, this time is a Spanish, which is not as easy to accept to Portuguese (“De Espanha, nem bom vento nem bom casamento” it’s a Portuguese saying that means “From Spain, neither comes good wind or a good marriage”, due to the historically multiple tentatives for annexing Portugal) Some say it might be also a move for the World Cup organization (Portugal + Spain are one of the candidates). Anyway, bienvenido Martinez!

Até sempre, Rei Pelé

a photo of the famous Gourmetten?

Merry F&*#ing Christmas to all!!!

@catgamer Fun fact: the German song from this years contest is part of the annual Top 2000 made in the Netherlands (a Christmas tradition in NL, people vote on a bunch of songs and the Top 2000 are played from 2000 to 1 since 25 December until midnight of 31st December in the radio). It got placed at 237 position (in 2000), so not bad! P.S - The number one this year (as it is almost every year) was Bohemian Rapsodhy. Here’s the first 10 from this year’s contest:

I think everyone understood that was the meaning of mbappe. And even today it makes sense I mean for two times Argentina was winning 2-0 and instead of playing it in a defensive way they kept attacking and ended up suffering 2 goals. I believe if it would be an European team they would park the bus the moment they would reach 2-0 in a final match with a team like France

Here’s a joke from a Portuguese who still loves Ronaldo as the best but who enjoys good football and funny memes hehe

I still find it a bit of “small team” style to celebrate the defeat of others instead of the winning (specially being the most important trophy of football), but again, if you win such a trophy (and specially if you normally play in clubs that don’t win nothing) you are allowed to celebrate the way you like, no matter how jerk can it look. Those guys should get some kind of statues for bringing so much happiness to that many people

meh let him be jerk at will, he plays for Aston Villa this is the only time he gets to celebrate things. Plus I actually think there’s a love story behind this, only explanation for such obsession with Mbappe hehe

This make sense, those guys were supporting every team since the beginning haha

So after so many years, and after the miracle of 2016 Euro Championship, our coach, Mr Engineer (or “the engineer of draws” as we call him) is leaving Portuguese national team. Mourinho is now the one who’s the favorite to succeed him. Meanwhile, as the info spread around the country, this is how Portuguese reached on Fernando Santos departure