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Mimicat - Aí Coração The final was yesterday, from the reactions I see it was quite a happy choice. Im happy that it’s not a sad song like most of the times haha

To me it always seemed kind of as if Portugal were the Spanish little brother haha and I never forget the Spanish newspaper cover when Portugal won the Euro ❤️ (of course it was also due to Ronaldo and the newspaper is a madrid one, but still) btw, that first sentence on the top of the cover has a totally different meaning in Portuguese 😅 (don’t look it up on Google during your work time! Haha)

This doesn’t apply to me though, spent too much time in Spain to have such feeling and I’ve always loved the country and the language (even after some years of independentism brainwash in Catalunya hehe)

By the way, fun fact, which is only a fact based on the Spanish people I’ve met so far (so our host might confirm or deny it ), but the rivalry between Portugal and Spain is much more from Portuguese to Spanish than the other way around (at least is the feeling I have, there’s a lot of “hate” from Portuguese agains Spain and I don’t see the same from Spanish to Portugal )

I can live with that, Murcia (the region) has nice beach areas, at least I have good memories from that many years ago hehe (in La Manga) 😃

Had to be in Catalunya ❤️

Ok so I share this song with you because its my favorite song of 2022 and i liked it so much that would be a crime not to do it! Maan & Goldband - Stiekem

Can I share a song from a participating country in the festival of music? It's a really nice dutch song from last year hitting the top of the charts there for a lot of weeks!

Nice! I have family from Granollers (in Catalunya) and spent basically all summers from my childhood and teen years there (thus my preference for that region :-) ), I have so many good memories from the city festivals! (Festa major)

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?