Football
Men's Competition:
- Afonso Martins, Litos, Dani, Kenedy, Emílio Peixe, Hugo Porfírio, José Dominguez, Calado, José Vidigal, Andrade, Nuno Afonso, Nuno Gomes, Nuno Espírito Santo, Paulo Alves, Costinha, Beto, Rui Bento and Rui Jorge — 4th
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- Group stage (A) — 5 pts (→ 2nd, 1 scored goal less than Argentina)
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- July 20 | Washington D.C. — Tunisia (→ won by 2-0; goals by: Afonso Agra)
- July 22 | Washington D.C. — Argentina (→ draw 1-1; goals by: Nuno Ribeiro)
- July 24 | Washington D.C. — United States (→ draw 1-1; goals by: Paulo Alves)
- Quarter-finals
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- July 27 | Miami, Florida — France (→ won by 2-1; goals by: Nuno Rocha, José Silva)
- Semi-finals
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- July 30 | Athens, Georgia — Argentina (→ lost by 2-0)
- Bronze medal match
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- August 2 | Athens, Georgia — Brazil (→ lost by 5-0)
Read more about this topic: Portugal At The 1996 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)