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Mateus Carvalho writes a detailed scout report about the Portugal and SC Braga winger, Trincão. When in late January Barcelona announced the signing of...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of...
Jose Miguel Saraiva writes a detailed scout report about Eintracht Frankfurt’s striker, Gonçalo Paciência. For those who have been attentively observing the Portuguese national team...
Jose Miguel Saraiva writes a detailed scout report about Benfica’s tricky winger, Diogo Goncalves Having been deprived of their biggest talent Nicolas Gaitán in...
Jose Miguel Saraiva provides a detailed scout report on Iuri Medeiros, Sporting Lisbon’s next prodigy. I believe that many football fans are getting tired of...
Jose Miguel Saraiva brings you 10 players that could enjoy breakthrough campaigns in the Primeira Liga this season.
Jose Miguel Saraiva provides a detailed scout report on Bruno Varela, Benfica’s young goalkeeper. Benfica has already given European football two amazing goalkeepers that...
Jose Miguel Saraiva writes a detailed scout report about Edgar Ié, the Belenenses and Portugal centre back. Portugal has been facing a problem regarding the...
Mateus Carvalho writes a detailed scout report about João Cancelo, Valencia’s forward thinking right-back. Throughout the years it has been fairly easy to point out...
Jose Miguel Saraiva writes a detailed scout report about Daniel Podence, the Portugal and Sporting Lisbon prodigy. Despite not having been able to achieve...
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Football News 24/7 In the second edition of this annual feature, we at Outside of the Boot aim to unearth the best performing footballers from each...
Mateus Carvalho writes a detailed scout report on André Silva, Porto’s complete striker. With the advent of contemporary football and rise of new tactical trends, the...
Mateus Carvalho writes a comprehensive scout report about Andre Horta, Benfica’s exciting young midfielder. With their new coach, Rui Vitória, Benfica has changed its policy on the...
Mateus Carvalho writes a comprehensive scouting report about Francisco Geraldes, Sporting Clube de Portugal’s cerebral midfielder. Constantly producing talented players to build its senior side,...
Ross Bramble writes a detailed Scout Report about Benfica’s fiery full-back on loan at Nottingham Forest, Hildeberto Pereira. Fawaz Al-Hasawi’s project at Nottingham Forest has not always...
Mateus Carvalho writes a detailed Scout Report about Sporting’s all-action defender, Ruben Semedo. When we talk about Sporting’s Academy the first thing that comes to mind is...
Daniel Wong writes a detailed tactical analysis of the Euro 2016 final, which ended France 0-1 Portugal. The Euro 2016 final saw the home...
Daniel Wong provides an in-depth tactical analysis about the Euro 2016 semi final that ended Portugal 2-0 Wales. On the day, Chris Coleman elected to start...
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We take a look at which footballers at the Euro 2016 seem to be the most sought after fan favorites on social media. These...
Tiago Estevao provides a scout report on young Portuguese goalkeeper Miguel Silva who has been impressing at Vitoria. In an extremely business minded football world,...
Football News 24/7 Under our Talent Radar banner, we have constantly strived to document and highlight the progress of the younger stars of the beautiful...
Tiago Estevao provides an in-depth scout report on Paços de Ferreira’s exciting youngster, Diogo Jota. Who is Diogo Jota? Diogo Jota is a name...
The Primeira Liga is widely considered a three horse race every season and yet Porto have flattered to deceive in the past two. However,...
With both the Portuguese national team and the biggest team in the country going through a process of renewal, a young right-back is emerging....
If I told anyone within the football world that Sporting had a new home-grown winger creating buzz in the first team, no one would...
Who is Raphael Guerreiro? Despite being born in the Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil, Lorient fullback/midfielder Raphael Guerreiro grew up a Benfica fan, supporting Os Aguilas from...
Sweden started the U21 Euros as rank outsiders and very few people (myself included) would have tipped them to get out of the group...
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Maribor are arguably the most obscure club in this season’s Champions League, but the side are rich in history and bursting with talent. One...
A brand new feature on this website is the introduction of weekly & fortnightly columns focusing on various leagues, countries and regions across the...
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Some of the biggest names in World Football have come from the Iberian nation of Portugal. Rui Miguel Martins gives us an insight into...
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The two sides came into this game with contrasting opening fixtures. While the Americans were lacking expectations at the World Cup, they managed a...
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All eyes are on the Portugal team, the team of the best player of the world. There are high expectations of this team, and...
As part of our World Cup coverage, we have interviewed journalists, correspondents, experts & writers representing each of the 32 countries to give you, the...