Football In Portugal
Football has a long and storied history in Portugal, following its 1875 introduction. Portuguese teams have been successful in international competitions, losing to the ultimate champions in the 2004 UEFA cup and reaching the seminfinals of the FIFA World Cup in 2006.
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“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)