I hope you have already acknowledged that next season of football will be nothing but a massive dominance of Futebol Clube of Porto at all levels.
These four years of suffering without titles were a sacrifice made so we can fly to claim out place amongst the Gods. We have now a coach that understands our mystic, a coach that breathes FC Porto. He shall pass such mystic to the players, and conceive a team that could challenge even the Elements. We shall be Perfection itself. All teams that come future will be downed by the might of our Sacred Squad.
In our country, no one, from Moreira de Cónegos to Portimão, shall escape our wrath. Our first victims shall be the Saracen infidels. The Lion and the Eagle shall burn into ashes by the Holy Fires. Braga will be a memory and the Panther will be hunted down. The River Bird will be crimson blood and the sea will be forever Unnavigable. The Town of Vimara and the Mouth of Sado are now symbols of Defeat. The Birds will not fly and the Keys will be lost. The Beach will become one grain of sand, and no star will shine upon Bethlehem. The Furniture will be destroyed and Saint Mary will abandon the Fair. Not even the meme magic of Tondela will be able to stop us.
Cup & League Cup shall have the same fate of our League. And so will the League of Champions. No team in Europe is able to even think of matching our might, and whoever tries it has nothing but misery in their fate. Even united the two clubs of the city of Manchester cannot bother us. The Blue Lion ends as the Green, and the Mersey will be a pool of livers. The Bavarian Bear shall be tamed by the Heel again, and the Yellowblacks will return to Prussia in fear. The Monk will be a martyr and the City of Lights shut down. Too much pain will kill the Old Lady and a new Knight of the White Moon will destroy an old man’s Dream. Even the All-Mighty Galaxy itself will knee at our presence.
There is nothing you can do to avoid this tale. Just accept it or burn in flames.
I'll accept it if you disclose more benfica emails. Been loving that shit.
Charles Watson
Vitoria Setubal
Dylan Robinson
>(((disclose)))
how does one even prove they're real?
Adrian Watson
Rated portsuuuuuu since they made casemiro elite. Thanks for the missing piece of the puzzle. We promise to keep it under 5 goals when >we play you
Jason Hernandez
support braga
Luis Gray
>under 5 goals when >we play you Did you not read:
>Even the All-Mighty Galaxy itself will knee at our presence.
Anthony Morales
didnt read lol
Adam Thompson
...
Owen Green
even if they are real they are illegal evidence.
Samuel Roberts
I need my daily fix of email.
Where are they?
Nolan Lopez
Don't ever stop Portobro
Andrew Smith
That makes everything alright.
Kevin Wright
Benficaca and Spoorting rekt.
Porto is best. Obrigada amigo
Adam Hernandez
that makes everything the same you idiot.
email caca
Brayden Bailey
Bravo
Landon Torres
what team should i support
i really like lisbon and cais do sodré is really cool
Christian Lewis
The name Carlos Queiroz provokes disparate sentiments in the minds of supporters of the clubs and countries which he has coached or managed throughout the years. Portuguese fans, in general, view him with disdain for inconsistent performances and intimidating behaviour – particularly against an anti-doping team. Real Madrid fans consider his short stint at the Bernabéu a failure after a dismal run of results saw them finishing fourth in La Liga, while Manchester United fans generally view his time as assistant manager at the club with esteem, particularly as he was highly regarded by Sir Alex Ferguson.
For supporters of Iran’s national team – Team-e Melli – however, he is adulated as a saviour. Ever since the 1979 Revolution swiftly halted Iran’s decade-long dominance of Asia, the football-mad country has been chomping at the bit for a return to former glories.
Although his stint in charge has not yet yielded any continental trophies – since taking over six years ago, in April 2011 – Team-e Melli has seen a noticeable change in the style of play, the largest audience for which may have been Iran’s World Cup 2014 group stage match against Argentina, when only a 91st-minute moment of genius from Lionel Messi broke the deadlock between the two nations.
Elijah Myers
t.dumb venfica cuck
Asher Lewis
Blending fiery passion during and after games and a feistiness when dealing with snipes from Iran’s club coaches, Iran’s Football Federation or rival national team coaches, the warm-blooded Portuguese immediately imprinted his status as ‘one of us’ amongst Team-e Melli’s fans.
With Iran considered by many around the world as a pariah state since the 1979 revolution, it is rare to see a non-Iranian – apart from an ancient historian – bring so much enthusiasm to the nation, even if it is for a game of 11 men kicking vulcanised rubber into a mesh of knotted twine. Coming to a population with immense national pride, but anxious to differentiate itself from the ostracised ruling regime, the Mozambique-born coach offers a great opportunity to see their country’s name splashed out on world newspapers for positive reasons.
His first and most important change has been a wholesale adjustment of the national team’s strategic philosophy. During his tenure, he has fashioned an immensely disciplined unit out of a formerly tactically deficient one, which often relied on the skills of talented mavericks such as Ali Karimi rather than cohesive teamwork. This has brought about a sequence of results that include 32 competitive games against Asian opposition without loss, no goals conceded during their World Cup qualifying group stage, together with the prospect of early qualification to next year’s global showpiece in Russia.
Becoming the bête noire of regional rivals South Korea, with four consecutive 1-0 victories since 2012, underlines the authority of a team which now ranks at number 28 in the April 2017 FIFA rankings (with Korea ranked second amongst Asian teams, sitting in 43rd).
Kevin Lee
I really like Iran's football because they believe in our coaches. Queiroz, Toni... they all went there
And they have a club named Trator
Colton Nguyen
The symbol of the national team has been rebranded from Persian Lions to the Iranian (Asiatic) cheetah. This was done to raise awareness of this endangered species, with only 50 remaining in the wild today. The national team reflects this, playing with the pace and passion of a side which is constantly under threat.
This has been spearheaded by Queiroz, who has employed the siege mentality psychological play which would rival even his compatriot José Mourinho. No-one is indispensable; even the players in the rock-solid defensive core of the team are interchangeable – with only two players having featured in all of the last six World Cup qualifiers – but the unit itself remains steadfast as the ancient world’s Persian Immortals.
A number of different formations have been implemented from game to game, switching seamlessly between 4-2-3-1, 4-1-4-1 and 4-1-3-2 in recent outings, and part of this tactical versatility has arisen from the work of the experienced staff that Queiroz has brought with him.
His assistant, Cape Verde-born former Portugal midfielder Oceano, and fitness coach Diego Giacchino have had important roles to play, together with American goalkeeping coach Dan Gaspar, who has worked with the young keepers in Iran’s training camps to foster strong technical skills and confidence in the air.
Austin Fisher
>finish behind lestah in a cl group with copenagen lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll you even lost your top meme to milan, porto is done
Jonathan Richardson
nice counter argument from you, as always
Josiah Wilson
I'll respond to this post in a second
Queiroz has not been afraid to make unpopular decisions either, and he seems to have been vindicated so far, particularly with the passage of time. Bringing into action the Iranian Diaspora has already seen dividends, most conspicuously the German-Iranian Ashkan Dejagah and Dutch-Iranian Reza Ghoochannejhad, who were instrumental for qualifying to the 2014 World Cup. More significantly, the door is now viewed as open for Iranians and half-Iranians around the world to follow in the footsteps of these two, both of whom should feature in the 2018 World Cup.
His controversial decisions have included exiling the experienced goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati from the national team five years ago after the latter questioned the authority of Queiroz, a verdict which has been made less relevant over time with the development of Iran’s defensive unit and a number of talented young Iranian goalkeepers, such as current number one Alireza Beiranvand. This served to underline the earliest philosophy of Queiroz for Iran, a team that needed order.
Leaving out the talented but lightweight trequartista, Mohammad Reza Khalatbari. for the 2014 World Cup, as well as future star Sardar Azmoun, were both seen as strange decisions at the time. For the latter, it appeared to breed a hunger which has taken his game to new levels, such that he has become the national team’s star within two years.
In recent times, Queiroz has also introduced a number of younger players to the national team, and the average age has dropped below 25. All of these youngsters share a drive and determination on the pitch that often eluded previous generations, though the newest crop has one starlet who shines brighter than most in Terek Grozny’s pacy left wing-back Milad Mohammadi.
Angel Clark
The question arises, then, as to why has it worked for him in Iran when he ostensibly failed in Madrid and Portugal? A critical answer would concentrate on ego, and state that this is a man who needs total control, rendered more difficult when managing established stars such as Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Luís Figo at Real Madrid, or Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal.
He is also emotional and can at times be aggressive, a characteristic which Portugal’s Anti-Doping Authority and former South Korean coach Choi Kang-hee know too well.
A kinder answer would focus on the fact that Queiroz thrives on the development of a project – be it a player or a team – and is less suited to controlling and nurturing the end product. Perhaps this is the trait that Sir Alex Ferguson recognised early on. Queiroz helped mentor Cristiano Ronaldo in his first season at Manchester United when he was a raw talent and far from the finished article he became when player and coach spectacularly fell out following Portugal’s World Cup 2010 second round loss against Spain.
The opportunity to have a blank slate on which to work, with any egos from Iran’s national team purged early on, would always be a tempting proposition for Queiroz. Iran has a population of 80 million people, in which passion for football was first incepted in the 19th century by British residents of the ancient city Isfahan who played a team of ethnic Armenians, and then fortified by British sailors bringing the game to the nation’s southern port cities in the first decade of the 20th century.
Sebastian Evans
There also exists a large diaspora of Iranian emigrants throughout Europe and North America, chiefly well-educated but also football-mad, who left the country following the 1979 revolution. The skills of the domestic talent pool have largely been honed through decades of Gol Koochik, the street football played often dangerously on Iran’s roads with a feather-light plastic ball (in fact it is two balls, as one is torn apart and the other is inserted inside to add extra heft) and tiny goals.
This emphasises dribbling skills, anticipation (mainly of vehicles) and accuracy, and would surely bring nostalgia to Queiroz reminiscing of a childhood keeping goal amongst Nampula’s decaying colonial mansions.
For Iran’s legions of fans inside the country, as well as those first and second generations living in the United States, Canada, Europe and elsewhere, the passion of Carlos Queiroz has been the feature that has melted even the iciest of Iranian hearts. From his Olympian fist-pump against Korea in the final World Cup qualifier of 2013 to the emotions with which he gives his press conferences and interviews, the fans have appreciated that he isn’t just there to collect a hefty cheque.
He has even threatened to resign on a number of occasions from the national team, with reasons ranging from contract disputes to meddling from the football federation. Overtures from South Africa, where he remains coveted, to reprise his role as Bafana Bafana head coach are seemingly ever-present, but many Iranians will hope that he stays until the 2018 World Cup and beyond, and that the Iranian national team finally breaks through to the second round of the World Cup
Toni got a lot of support from Traktor Sazi fans because he played on their regional pride and so on, but that later became bad blood. I have to say, that guy is not fit to wipe the boots of a couple of the Iranian coaches, let alone CQ. I'd love to see more Portuguese managers in the league though desu, but if there is a country that seems to pair with Iran the best (historically) it's Croatia for some reason. There have been a number of Croat managers in the league in the league (and still do) and two different Croats qualified the country to two WCs, which is a feat Queiroz has just matched single-handily.
But yea, if you have any more unappreciated / misunderstood coaches lying around, please send them BIG STRONG PORTUGESE
Chase Hill
Too long; didn't watch lmao
Daniel Sanchez
Toni is not a "great" coach, only our top 50, although he did led Benfica to a Champions League final.
I can see Vítor Pereira in Iran in the near future
Christopher Richardson
Tondela
Brayden Moore
Will Porco fans end themselves at the P E N T A?
Brayden Phillips
nice counter argument from you, as always
Ayden Bell
t.dumb venfica cuck
Xavier Watson
nice counter argument from you, as always
Wyatt Johnson
I don't know if the emails would hold as evidence in a court, but did fatso Guerra deny their existence? I got the idea that the emails are very real and that Porto has a mole inside Benfica.
new reddit but I can't deny they have the most loyal fanbase and their emblem is cool as fuck
not so reddit anymore
have done well for a bankrupt club too bad they're obviously in bed with benfica now, but poor clubs gotta give their asses if they want to survive
Adam Barnes
DO NOT MAKE CONTACT WITH A LEAF THEIR LOW LEVEL IQ IS CONTAGIOUS AND COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE YOU MENTALLY RETARDED
Benfica - Corrupt, the people's team, wins shit Porto - Corrupt, plastic fans, wins shit Sporting - Doesn't win shit, chokers, loyal fans, has the best academy Braga - Loyal fans, doesn't win shit Guimarães - Loyal but hooligan fans, doesn't win shit, likes to fuck over bigger teams sometimes
Logan Peterson
>Braga - Loyal fans
Colton Torres
>Porto >Wins shit
Evan Harris
>Braga >the team whose fans cheered for Benfica at their own stadium while Benfica was playing against them >loyal
Landon Taylor
>tfw no qt beirã gf
Ryder Rivera
Today I learned Benfiquistas are fags.
Lucas Turner
You are in debt, you will have to sell your garbade players to stay afloat. The squad will only get worse next season, get ready for the 3rd place. Muh "mystic"...implying a random guy from mexico or colombia gives a fuck about the "mystic", that is something of the past that will never come back, after the 90's you became commercial garbage with a bunch of bandwagoners, thats why now when you arent winning shit you get an half empty stadium while Sporting hasnt won the league in 15 years and has a full stadium every game. Get ready for the 3rd place.
Sebastian Hill
only gay if you get caught honey
James Jones
this is actually accurate
Brayden Robinson
You still have Herrera, so stop dreaming
Jacob Phillips
>Saint Mary will abandon the Fair What did he mean by this?
Parker Wilson
He meant Saint Mary will indeed abandon the Fair.
Jacob Phillips
>Braga - Loyal fans here's an (you)
Aiden Watson
Makes sense
Oliver Wilson
Atletico
Asher Wilson
Maritimo - cozy
Julian Wilson
From the most corrupt place in the country!? Sure!
