December 12, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments
The European / South American (Toyota Cup) is ours.
After 120 minutes, where we only saw F.C. Porto trying to win the game and Once Caldas desperate to get to the penalty kicks (as their golakeeper was a supposed penaltyt kick expert) the final result served justice well.
During the game F.C. Porto saw two goals disalowed for pretense offside (the second one clearly wasn’t) and four balls hitting the posts and the crossbar.
In the end the best team won and all is well!
Seventeen years later F.C. Porto is once again crowned the best team of the world.
July 1, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments
After being defeated 3 times in major competitions semi-finals Portugal finally maded it all the way through a final. The win against Holland by 2-1 seemed too easy even with Scolari deciding to over-complicate the game by defending a single goal advantage.
The result: Party all over the place all night long!
June 21, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments
It seems Scolari not only reads my posts but he also reads comments on my posts. Now if only he could get V. Baia back in the squad 
Portugal ended 23 years of being beated by Spain when it matered the most. It was even more rewarding after seeing the big celebrations Spain supporters made after Portugal had been beaten by Greece.
June 17, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 4 Comments
Or so it seems. After my rant about how he didn’t use the Porto players in the national team squad he decided (after dozens of bad friendly games) it was time to give them a chance.
The result was a undisputed victory against Russia by 2-0. The same team that had given Spain so much trouble some days ago.
June 13, 2004 - Posted by André Restivo- 5 Comments
Portugal is in the verge of throwing away the biggest chance they will ever have of winning the UEFA European Championship.
We have a club that won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League in two consecutive years using 9 Portuguese Players in their first squad. A team that can play together with their eyes closed. Still only 6 have been called for Euro 2004 and only 2 were in the initial line-up against Greece.
We are playing home and the Portuguese crowd has proven to be enthusiastic and supportive. Yet we managed to lose our first game against a theroetically weaker team.
In the end it won’t be hard to find out what went wrong.
Well, we can only hope things get better in the next 2 games. *sigh*
