Let's kick start with some of the history of Portugal football team.The Portugal team reached for the FIFA World Cup in 1966 for the first time but lost to the eventual world champion England 2-1 in the semi-final.The final result was that the Portugal finished in third place.It re-emerged again to be qualified for the World Cup in 1986 and also for the year 2002 but it did not won either one of the trophy from the tournament as it was knocked out at the first round of the match..
It sounds a bit weird uh what was happening to the Portugal.Sometimes, maybe luck is not on their side.However, it was heard that the Portugal went on strike for the prize over money and refused to train during the first two matches during 1986.Maybe due to that led to the lost of the team.
However, in order to be back again for the World Cup qualifier for the year 2006, the Portugal Football Federation hired the Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scholari who led the Brazil team to victory of the World Cup year 2002.Even with the famous coach Luiz Felipe Scholari, the Portugal still could not grab the trophy World Cup 2006.I do not mean that the team is weak or the coach is ineffective enough but sometimes team work is very important as each of them play a major role.As what I have said earlier,luck is not on their side.They were defeated by Greece national team in the semi final in World Cup 2006 and the World Cup winner for the year 2006 was Italy with a penalty shoot out against France 5-3.
Curerntly, the Portugal is under Carlos Queiroz who leads the Portugal to the World Cup 2010.Tonight we will keep our eyes on Christiano Ronaldo who declared himself to be the greatest player in world history.Let us see if he can make it.Since the match is between Portugal vs Ivory Coast, I will support Portugal...I wish he could be the greatest player in the world cup history and hope he is fit in the match tonite.Check it out at 10pm tonite.^^
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