(World Cup) Portugal Announces 24 Man Roster

[Lunatic]

...With one cut still to come of course, before the final 23

Thought this is a fair thread since WC is approaching and teams will now (slowly) start to announce their official 23 man roster. Portugal (I believe) is the first to officially announce. Maybe some of you are interested 

Goalies: 1) Eduardo (Braga) 2) Beto (Porto) 3) Daniel Fernandes (Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.)
Defenders: 4) Ferreira (Chelsea), 5) Miguel (Valencia), 6) Duda (Malaga) 7) Coentrao (Benfica) Carvalho (Chelsea), 9) Alves (Porto) 10) Rolando (Porto) 11) Ricardo Costa (Lille)


Midfield: 12) Pepe, 13) Tiago (Atletico) 14) Pedro Mendes (Sporting) 15) Raul Mereieles (Porto) 16) Ze Castro (Deportivo), 17) Veloso (Sporting), 18) Nani (Man Utd), 19) Deco (Chelsea) 20) Danny (Zenit St. Peterburg) 21) Simao (Atletico)

Forwards: 22) Ronaldo (Real Madrid), 23) Liedson (Sporting) 24) Hugo Almeida (Werder Bremen)

Likely player to be cut: Ricardo Costa or Ze Castro

Didn't make the team: Quim (GK- Benfica), Patricio (GK - Sporting), Hilario (GK- Chelsea), Carrico (CB - Sporting), Moutinho (Sporting), Manuel Fernandes (Valencia), Quaresma (Inter Milan), Carlos Martins (Benfica), Edinho (ST - PAOK), Makakula (ST)

I would have left off Ricardo Costa completely, brought Quim instead of Danny Fernandes as the 3rd goalie and brought (ST) Makakula instead of DM Ze Castro.

[Furor Teutonicus]

why didn't you post it here?

[Lunatic]

huh? I did post it above 

[Elano]

there's a thread about the world cup 

[Leggy Hendrix]

im surprised at the omissions of Moutinho, Manuel Fernandes and Quaresma...but i take it none of them have had particularly good seasons?

[Lunatic]

im surprised at the omissions of Moutinho, Manuel Fernandes and Quaresma...but i take it none of them have had particularly good seasons?

Moutinho (Sporting as a whole) is not having a good season.
Quaresma has been invisible at Inter
Manuel Fernandes has had a phenomenal year but never lived up to expectations..I guess u can consider him a snub.

[Elano]

why don't we start a thread like this one for every team of the world cup  ? 

[Javier]

why don't we start a thread like this one for every team of the world cup  ? 

The teams that the board cares about should have their own topic for the final list

[Lunatic]

Exactly...Portugal, Italy, Spain, Brazil, France, Germany, England, Argentina, etc - the major teams should get their own thread

[Furor Teutonicus]

there's a thread about the world cup  

yeah I meant that with my post. Wanted to post a link to the thread but obviously forgot. It would be better to keep it all in one thread. Better than 5 threads with like 3 replies.

[Javier]

Exactly...Portugal, Italy, Spain, Brazil, France, Germany, England, Argentina, etc - the major teams should get their own thread

Plus, I don't even check the football thread or World Cup thread that often.  In fact, thanks to this topic I found out about the Portugal roster. 

[Lunatic]

Exactly...Portugal, Italy, Spain, Brazil, France, Germany, England, Argentina, etc - the major teams should get their own thread

Plus, I don't even check the football thread or World Cup thread that often.  In fact, thanks to this topic I found out about the Portugal roster. 

Then I've done well 

[IRAN iz Gangsta!]

portugal is gonna lose to brazil and ivory coast!   they wont make it out of the group...look for another picture of ronaldo crying  after the 1st round

[Lunatic]

^ I'd love to take that bet. LOL at how over rated Ivory Coast is. All offense, no defense. Our defense is good enough to contain their attack and their defense is going to shit their pants with our offense.

LOL at them JUST recently hiring their world cup coach...Sven at that 

We are going to take care of them in our opening game and hopefully everyone will shut up about Ivory Coast after that.

[K.Dub]

im surprised at the omissions of Moutinho, Manuel Fernandes and Quaresma...but i take it none of them have had particularly good seasons?

Same, especially Moutinho, isn't he the captain and star at Sporting?

And wow, Deco... Really? Moutinho must've had a really low season...