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...RTPi--Radio Televiso Portugal internacional. Channel 69 on your local Cablevision directory...club matches pop up from time to time between stylish clubs like Benfica, Porto and Sporting Lisbon, broadcast in the lovely Portugese language (a kind of cross between Spanish and Russian...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Footballing Around the Globe, American Style | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...famous soccer star of Lisbon's Benfica team, Gonçalves spent most of his active military career as an engineer. While still in the army, he earned considerable civilian income as stockholder and manager of a construction firm. A veteran of the wars in both Mozambique and Angola, he was an early opponent of (and frequent plotter against) the Salazar and Caetano regimes. The leftist ideas he picked up in the military also made him an opponent of Spínola after that conservative general became President. When the M.F.A. decided a year ago that the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Cork, the Ideologue, the Playboy | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...Down 3-2 at the half, Lisbon's Benfica soccer team rallied on two goals by 19-year-old Eusebio da Silva, defeated Real Madrid, 5-3, to retain the European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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