The Carlos Queiroz Era

Well, after several months in a daze I decided to post again. Since beating Finland 1-0, Portugal lost to Denmark at home 3-2 in an abismal display of defense, tied Albania, yes you read it right, tied Albania at home 0-0, tied Sweden twice and, finally, got a win against powerhouse Albania 2-1, barely, in [...]

Well the Ronaldo show actually produced a goal on a penalty that was not. But we’ll take it. If this was a tune up game for the very important upcoming game with Sweden than lets have a couple more because our beloved Portuguese national team was out of tune. There is a lack of finish [...]

Game time 20:45 GMT. Let’s go Portugal

A few weeks away from the crucial and horrifyingly important game with Sweden, Queiroz is once again playing with the line up, introducing new faces, naming new players. Here’s Queiroz’s line up for the friendly on Wednesday against Finland:
Goalkeepers. Gone is the inefficient duo of Quim and Rui Patricio. In are: Daniel Fernandes (Bochum/Ale) e [...]

Brazil 6 - Portugal 2 is the worst result since Portugal lost to Sweden in 1958 for the same score. This from a team that just this summer made the quarter finals of the European championships.
At the risk of being redundant this team looks completely lost. The defense is a disaster, the midfielders lack creativity, [...]

My friends, this is it. Portugal has officially bought a ticket to stay home and watch the world cup in the tube…unless they send Queiroz back to Man U.
This was one of the saddest display of coaching and lack of team spirit I have seen. This is a team of individuals who are back to [...]

What can I say? This team will be luck to qualify. Are we going to insist in playing Hugo Almeida? Can we keep giving excuses, this time because we had no Deco? Are we now pretty convinced that this coach is ate best mediocre? Let’s wait for the Albania game.

Well, let’s see, after the 4 -0 win over Malta, in what it was basically a practice game, Portugal reverts to its old ways of complacent soccer and complacent coaching. After being ahead since late in the first half, the team began to loose steam, as compared to the seemingly better fit Danish players. Denmark [...]

Carlos Queiroz’ first game at the helm of the Portuguese National met the objectives os an open practice against the next to last worst team in Europe according to the FIFA rankings. With only one goal on the first half by Carlos Martins, Portugal came out swinging in the second half with 4 goals by [...]

This blog will follow the adventures of Carlos Queiroz, the newly appointed successor to Luis Filipe Scolari. Queiroz was highly critical of Scolari’s work, so let’s see how he does in qualifying a Scolari over-achiever team to the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Let’s see if Queiroz starts by getting rid of Ricardo, finding [...]