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Portugal Coach Carlos Queiroz has claimed that Jose Mourinho was only trying to motivate his team when he declared that Portugal have no chance of winning the World Cup, 'even if Cristiano Ronaldo plays at 1,000 per cent'. (more...)

Nigerian International John Mikel Obi is set to miss out on the FA Cup final against Portsmouth in just nine days after the Chelsea holding midfielder underwent "minor" knee surgery following three weeks of being unable to overcome the initial injury. (more...)

Brazil has moved ahead of Spain and into the top spot of the FIFA world men's soccer rankings. Brazil gained 22 ratings points and Spain lost 37, giving the South American team its seventh time at the top of the world rankings. Brazil had been No. 1 for 142 months since the rankings debuted in 1993. After Brazil and Spain is Portugal, which ...

Nani has signed a new four-year contract with Manchester United which will keep him at Old Trafford until at least June 2014. The Portugal international, who joined United from Sporting Lisbon in 2007, has been rewarded for a good season so far with an improved contract. "I am delighted to have signed a new contract," he told United's official ...

Portugal International Jose Bosingwa's World Cup chances have taken a massive blow after Chelsea has confirmed that the 27 year old's knee injury (that he originally suffered back in October against Aston Villa) requires further surgery. (more...)

Goals scored by Hugo Almeida and Liedson gave Portugal a 2-0 win against China in their friendly on Wednesday

from the wsj online This weekend in Zurich, as it makes final preparations for June's World Cup, soccer's main rule-making body will discuss the latest controversial bit of Brazilian magic: a devastating penalty-kick maneuver known as the paradinha. The tactic, which in Portuguese means "little stop," was first popularized by Pelé in the 1970s but ...

from the telegraph: Deco said that he had been in talks with Chelsea to quit at the end of the season to be closer to his family and continue his search for first-team football. "I want to go back to Brazil," the midfielder told The Sun. "I still have a couple of good years of high-level football in me but I want to be near my ...