The Carlos Queiroz Era

I’m looking for predictions and opinions on the Sweden - Portugal game coming up on March 28th. It is a critical match for Portugal. As much as I’d like to see Portugal win, it’s going to be tough to beat the Swedes in Sweden. My prediction is a 0-0 tie which wouldn’t be too bad [...]

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, [...]

Ok, Queiroz is making some changes against Brazil. Gone from the starting line up is Hugo Almeida, finally!
In, after a long absence is Tiago (Inter) in midfield. Danny will play up front with Ronaldo and Simão.
The starting line ups are as follows:
PORTUGAL – Quim; Bosingwa, Pepe, Bruno Alves, Paulo Ferreira; Maniche, Deco, Tiago; Danny, Cristiano [...]

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.

Carlos Queiroz picked his assistant coaches. No big news. As in the past, he surrounds himself with inexperience at the big stage level. Not to say that the new assistant coaches don’t have the potential to be good, but this is the national team. It should not be a laboratory for experiments. The best should [...]

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 [...]