kungshamra71

Big day for Europe: important referendum in Italy and presidential elections in Austria where one of the candidates is from Far-Right ideology (if he wins - let's hope not - he will be the first Far-Right President of an European country since the end of 2nd World War).

Today one of our major teams, Sporting, whose equipment is also green, played (is still playing at this moment actually ) with the Chapecoense logo on their shirt: Portugal is also mourning for the loss of our brothers, "país irmão"

I thought that too. Although I think the winner will probably be Behringer due to the Olympic gold this year. I also hope for Pia Sundhage to win the coach award, after the medals and championships she won with USA, to be able to win a Silver medal with Sweden was just epic stuff! In the men's side I'm obviously cheering for my fellow countryman, but I think only Ronaldo can win the award, I would say Zidane should be favourite to win the men's coach award.

This "leaks" exists since the begginning of this year. I assume they were not international news before because most of the leaks are about our national teams, mainly Sporting (although I think they have some about Benfica and Porto too). At that time it was a big scandal here, with lots of tv shows spending hours talking about the leaks and trying to find the mistery person behind those leaks (since the majority of the news were about Sporting, who was chalenging Benfica at the top of the league to became national champion, people suspect about a Benfica fan, but that's just suspitions).

And here are the Women's nominees, also important of course: Best Player and Best Coach

The final list for FIFA Awards is here! No surprise for Best Men's Player nominees: And this are the nominees for FIFA Men's Best Coach Portugal has two nominees!!! (Ronaldo and Fernando Santos)

What a tough group for , first two matches with Serbia and then the "derby" with Spain? Very difficult...

2017 Swimming WC Tickets are already out Quite cheap actually, the more expensive ones are 30€

Or something like this, like a real tournament

Or you could do a 9 host's contest to select the 8 that would qualify for the main competition (quarter-finals) That way you would have extended fun and suspense!

"too bad" that it's 9 biddings. If it was 8, we could do some kind of elimination luck-game, culminating in a big final for organising the contest!

This one happened after a match here in Lisbon with Benfica, and it is still remembered by Benfica every year...

Genious! One should come here to this forum to get new ideas for tv contests then!

Portuguese news state that one of Chapecoense players that played in Sporting Clube de Portugal, Marcelo Boeck, did not board the plane because he asked for a dismiss to celebrate his birthday.... Can't even imagine his feelings right now.... http://www.dn.pt/desporto/interior/ex-guarda-redes-do-sporting-escapou-a-acidente-de-aviao-na-colombia-5524716.html

Maybe a game like Deal or No Deal ? (do you have this contest-show in your country? )

And we have bids from 4 different continents!

So you don't live in Portugal (I assume) so you don't get to see crazy things like this one...... This is a tv commercial for a portuguese tv/net provider, MEO, staring Cristiano Ronaldo in a very "what the f*** is this s***?!" role: (there are no subtitles but I don't think you need it, they are playing as in Home Alone movie, and the women on the video is actually his real mother)

Those are the only things Salazar did good during his rule:

We were on the West but we couldn't as well travel to outside the country without permission (because everyone was against the colonial war, so many people tried and left Portugal to live in France). Also we had a truly machist regime: womens could not travel without her husband permission. P.S - I really find this interesting (and sad..), having people from all different countries of the world, and it seems all our nations had similar experiences with dictactorships (of different styles, our was not communist but a far-right one) in the nearby past..... One can learn a lot here in this forum

One example of our great leader, Salazar: When everyone else released their colonies in India, our dictator refused to do so. And we only had 3 cities there, nothing else. We had only around 3000 soldiers. Those cities were completely surrounded by the Indian forces with - obviously - no chance of defending anything. And yet, he refused to give the cities to India, and gave the order to the cities commander: "I only want two type of result: winning soldiers, or dead soldiers". Our commanded refused this order, to avoid a massacre, and he was punished by that. By this example I think you can imagine how great he (and his regime) was.... My parents still have bad memories from that time....

We can talk as much as you want, because Portugal colonial war was due to our own "Fidel Castro" He was not "communist", but he was also a dictator who called himself "a great leader". His name? Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who ruled the country in an infamous dictatorship that brought war to the nation (he didn't want to release the colonies, unlike everyone else in Europe), later replaced by Marcelo Caetano, also "a great leader". Luckly our armies managed to kick them away and gave freedom to the nation, and that is the only reason I and everyone else in my country can speak what we want with real freedom. So yes, "great leaders" like Fidel in Cuba or Eduardo dos Santos in Angola or our own Salazar in Portugal results in some rich people, but A LOT of poverty for their people

And you can see the results of it in Angola.... They seem to be a rich country, Luanda have tons of great business there (lots of portuguese companies have projects there) but the rest of it is serious poverty....

Cubans -> except for El Comandante

There is no dream or easy group for my nation in football, we can end up in first place with a group with Romania, England and Germany (Euro 2000) or in 3rd place in a group with Iceland, Hungary and Austria (and then end up being Euro champions ).