Benfica and Nacional were in action today along with Sporting in the Europa League. Benfica scored two goals in the second half to defeat Everton on the road 2-0 on goals by Javier Saviola and Oscar Cardozo. Nacional took the lead once again against Athletic Bilbao on a goal by Edgar before Athletic tied it with eight minutes to draw Nacional 1-1. Click to continue reading...

Pensar en que a alguien le apoden "La Fiera" casi llegamos a concluír que debe ser un sujeto al borde de lo irracional, pero en el caso de Diego Aguirre fué un goleador incisivo pero que su vida personal muestra educación y cultura, abandonó los estudios de Odontología y ha dado clases de piano, ya que se recibió como profesor de piano y solfeo, como decía Beethoven:

"Quién toca piano puede escribir cualquier cosa".

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Nacional President Rui Alves expects to set a Nacional transfer record when the team sells Portuguese midfielder Ruben Micael. The 23 year old midfielder is being held in high record and Nacional will not let him go without a team matching their asking price of $10M Euro. Micael has scored two goals in Europa League play this season. Click to continue reading...

Todos sabemos que em alguns jogos de futebol os nervos andam por ali à solta. Todos sabemos que existe uma relação "especial" entre Manuel Machado e Jorge Jesus. Mas o que todos também sabemos, é que era perfeitamente evitável este nível de discussão pública. Não lhes fica bem, e seria exigível um comportamento mais adequado aos responsáveis técnicos de duas equipas bem posicionadas na nossa Liga e que representam Portugal na Liga Europa, portanto, clubes com responsabilidades acrescidas. Click to continue reading...

Benfica went back to the top of the table with this demolition of Nacional.

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Benfica continue their roll in the Portuguese Superliga with another crushing defeat of a portuguese side. This time the team to feel the wrath of the Eagles was Nacional da Madeira who went down to an embaressing defeat 6-1. Oscar Cardozo had the hat trick scoring goals in the 17th, 48th and 89th minute the latter two on the PK, while Saviola chipped in a brace in the 40th and 61st minute. Click to continue reading...

Nacional has defeated Belenenses from their Week 6 matchup that was postponed. Nacional took it to the home team early and were rewarded when Anselmo scored the lone marker of the game as Nacional held on the rest of the match for the 1-0 victory Click to continue reading...

Erro crasso disse Manuel José. Não me parece que a análise de Manuel José vá ao fundo da questão. Parece que foram cinco, mas podiam ter sido mais, se eventualmente mais alguns dos jogadores envolvidos neste jogo, e de ambos os clubes, tivessem sido convocados para as Selecções Nacionais "AA" e "Sub/23" de Portugal. Click to continue reading...

Fans of Club Nacional de Football, Montevideo, Uruguay. April 30, 2009.

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(video gol, 1-2. Felipe)
(video gol, 2-2. Halliche)
(video gol, 2-3. Pizarro)
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Portuguese clubs took to action in their first games of the group stage of the revamped UEFA Europa League. Benfica, Sporting and Nacional all played today with two of the three teams getting wins in the first matchups. Benfica took on Bate Borisov at the Estadio da Luz and defeated the Belarusian side 2-0 on first half goals by Nuno Gomes and Oscar Cardozo while Sporting visited the Click to continue reading...

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Grande resultado e feito internacional de grande dimensão. Incomparáveis os meios das duas equipas. Merecem grande realce os jogadores, técnicos e direcção deste clube madeirense. Pouco a pouco, cimentando o seu poder, investindo em jovens jogadores desconhecidos e em infra-estruturas desportivas, vão conseguindo ganhar um lugar não só em Portugal, como também na Europa. Click to continue reading...

Benfica and Nacional are both moving on in UEFA Europa League action and will now move on to the new Group Stage joining Sporting in the draw today. Benfica lost to FC Vorskla 2-1 but moved on with a 5-1 aggravate with Saviola picking up his second goal of the campaign. Nacional had one of the days biggest shockers knocking off 2007-08 UEFA Cup Champions Zenit from Russia 5-4 on the aggravate Click to continue reading...

Porto has won their home opener defeating a nine man Nacional 3-0. Falcao opened the scoring for Porto from the penalty area after Nacional's Clebao received his second yellow card of the game on a hand ball in the box. Nacional's Cleber then was next to be sent off in the 65th minute and Porto pushed forward against the short manned Madeira squad and Rolando scored off a set piece before Click to continue reading...

As equipas portuguesas tiveram um bom desempenho na jornada de 5ª feira. Se em relação ao Benfica seria de esperar tal comportamento, dada a valia da sua actual equipa e face à fraca cotação dos ucranianos e à sua atitude pró-turística, já o Nacional surpreendeu, dado ter jogado com uma equipa com prestígio europeu. Click to continue reading...

Portugal have finally gained victory in UEFA action as both Benfica and Nacional picked up victories today in 1st Leg action. Benfica looks set to advance to the UEFA Europa League group play stage after a 4-0 drubbing of FC Vorskla on goals by Angel Di Maria, Cardozo, Saviola and Dollarama man Weldon, while Nacional defeated 2008 UEFA Cup Champions Zenit St Petersburg in a high scoring Click to continue reading...

Sporting opened the Superliga season with a draw against Nacional in Madeira. Sporting trailed the game 1-0 when Aurelio put Nacional ahead in the 28th minute but then Aurelio scored again but this time in his own goal to give Sporting the draw in this season opening matchup. Braga got a late goal by Meyong in the 87th minute to pull out a 1-0 victory over Academica in their home opener. Click to continue reading...

We have another Weekend of Friendlies by Portuguese clubs. These were some of the more notable friendlies of the weekend. Pacos Ferreira defeated Spain's Celta Vigo 1-0 with Diarra scoring the marker for Pacos. Belenenses defeated Setubal 2-1 Yontcha and Diakite getting the markers for Belenenses and Helder Barbosa scoring for Setubal. Click to continue reading...

We have another Weekend of Friendlies by Portuguese clubs. There were quite a few teams in action this past weekend and we will start our round up with last seasons Champions FC Porto who defeated Monaco 3-0, Mariano and Guarin scored for Porto and Monaco also provided an own goal to round out the score. Click to continue reading...

Nacional have picked up 22 year old keeper Elisson this past week as the Madeira club looks to reinforce the team for the Europa League play. Elisson played the previous season in Brazil with Cruzeiro. Click to continue reading...

Han concluido las semifinales de la Copa Libertadores y los finalistas serán Cruzeiro de Brasil, y Estudiantes de La Plata, Argentina.

En la primera semifinal, Estudiantes venció a Nacional de Montevideo, un equipo que muchos no esperaban que llegara hasta esta fase, pero ahora no tuvieron la suficiente suerte para vencer a unos Estudiantes inspirados, que si bien no rindieron lo esperado en el Clausura Argentino, en la Libertadores si han dado mucho de qué hablar.

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La participación de Nacional de Montevideo en la Semifinales de la Copa Libertadores de América, trae a colasión una estadística impresionante del futbol uruguayo en la cual se resume su grandeza, tanto a nivel de clubes como de Selección:

"Uruguay es la única nación afiliada a FIFA que, en cada década del siglo XX, por lo menos ganó un título internacional de Selección o clubes, de resonancia mundial.

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Is that Felipão's long lost brother from Estudiantes? Those balloons look lovely on him, by the way! At least El Loco over there came prepared to celebrate his team's 1-0 victory over Nacional in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores semi-final tie last night.

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Nacional have sold last seasons Superliga leading scorer Nene to Italian club Cagliari for $4.5 million euro. Nene is said to have signed a four year contract with the Italian side and Nacional may yet receive Danielle Magliocchetti on loan for the season as well. Click to continue reading...

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Last week we looked at South Africa, this week we visit South America and the continent's biggest club competition the Copa Libertadores. As you read the post, look at the names of countries and the nationality adjectives.

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Palmeiras and Gremio played the second leg of the Copa Libertadores quarter finals.

The first in Montevideo, visiting Nacional. The second receiving Caracas in Porto Alegre.

The two controlled the first-half. The victory seemed close for the two.

One, Palmeira, had no time.

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Nacional defender Maicon has FC Porto in his sights. Maicon does not know if FC Porto has any interest in the central defender but with Bruno Alves possibly on the move this summer anything is possible, for now Maicon will continue to focus on playing for Nacional Click to continue reading...

While the season in Europe is coming to a close, things in South America are just beginning to hot up, so languagecaster takes a look at the biggest cup competition south of the equator.

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The most important club competition in South America is of course the Copa Libertadores and this year is a particularly important one as it is the 50th edition of this prestigious tournament.

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Las reacciones han sido diferentes y como que no quedó clara la postura de la FMF al leer algunos diarios internacionales, de hecho, ninguno de los que he leído profundiza en la situación puntual que es la que provoca todo este rollo: primero la FMF llega a un acuerdo con CONMEBOL y luego el organismo sudamericano decreta otra cosa diferente a lo previamente pactado.

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Luego de los mil y un problemas que la CONMEBOL impuso a los equipos mexicanos Guadalajara y San Luis, por el brote de gripe porcina en México, la Femexfut anunció que ambos clubes se retirarán de esta edición de la Copa Santander Libertadores, y por lo tanto ya no jugarán los octavos de final, esto luego de que el Nacional uruguayo y el Sao Paulo brasileño se negaran a jugar en México. Click to continue reading...

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Barcelona in the Bernabeu and back from the brink, Birmingham bounce back and bad boy Barton all feature on this week's good, the bad and the ugly section of languagecaster's football podcast. Click on the links below to find out more on all of these stories.

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Ya mucho rollo se ha dicho de donde van a jugar Chivas y San Luis la siguiente ronda de la Santander Libertadores. Me parece algo ya que empieza a llegar al límite del fastidio. Primero sobraron los ofrecimientos para que los equipos fueran a jugar en cancha neutral, luego algunos se negaron, luego se dijo que Estados Unidos, y ahora sabemos que ya se reactivará la actividad normal en México.

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Nacional entrenched themselves in 4th place up three points on Braga with a commanding 3-1 victory over Benfica all but ending Benfica's title hopes. Nacional and Benfica entered the half scoreless. Nene and Ruben then gave Nacional a 2-0 lead in the second half. Jose A Reyes cut that lead in half before M. Click to continue reading...

Braga kicked off the start of Week 27 in the Superliga with a draw on the road to Rio Ave. Braga are battling Nacional for a UEFA Cup spot and currently are tied with for 4th spot with 46 points but now have a game in hand on Nacional. Click to continue reading...

Talented Nicolas Lodeiro is a young boy, who excelled on South American U21 championship.

This competition that traditionally gathers great number of scouts from all over the world is a gold mine of talents. 20-year-old Lodeiro is a star in Uruguay, playing for Nacional Montevideo.

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