fifa

Equipa de futebol nacional portuguesa

Hello I am Miguel Veloso. I play defensive mid-field and sometimes left back. I have followed in my father, Antonio Veloso’s, footsteps in playing football on Portugal’s national team. My team and I just arrived in South Africa for the FIFA world cup. They are very welcoming and accommodating here in South Africa. I’ve heard that around the 20^th century South Africa started enacting segregation between whites, blacks, colored (white and black) and Asian. The South African people called it, apartheid. The apartheid laws decided where different races could go to school, work, and shop or even live. Blacks were paid far less than whites for similar work, and still even after the apartheid laws have been vacated, South white African’s income is about ten times higher than those of a black south African. There was even a point when foreign athletes would refuse to come play their sport in the country. Nelson Mandela was the man to stop the apartheid system and achieve political equality. Now with apartheid mostly abolished in South Africa, economic and cultural ties with other countries have been reestablished. Currently there is less than 10% of the population that is European compared to before 1994, when the Apartheid laws were still in act, where the majority of the population was composed of Europeans. There is still racial tension but people try to forget. With FIFA world cup coming there is going to be a lot of different varieties of races coming from all over the world but South Africa has ensured the safety of our fans and us.

♥ Cristiano Ronaldo ♥
Cristiano Ronaldo plays in Portugal's national team and in Manchester United. He plays as a forward or right winger. Ronaldo started playing since he was 3 years old and is now the greatest soccer players ever. In 2003 he was signed to Manchester united for 12.24 million in 2004 Cristiano Ronaldo FA Cup with Manchester United and in 2006 he won the FA Premiier League. Cristiano Ronaldo made his first cap for Portugal and has done 51 games and scored 20 goals for Portugal. He was in the runner up team in UEFA European Championship in 2004. He was The FIFA World Player of the Year in 2008 he did a total of 48 goals through all competitions 2007 -2008 after wining he got his dream of moving to Madrid in 2009 for a world record of 80 million. Ronaldo is fast and tricky and is one of the best players on the team of Portugal he is now captain of Portugal. Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985 and was playing ever since he was 3 but never really knew that he wanted to go professional till he was 6 years old he was on different teams as a little kid and grew up to love soccer he taught himself everything that he does now. He even has a giant statue of himself in Madrid's historic Plaza de Ramales .With three Premier League titles and one Champions League title he is ready to win the world cup of 2010 and make history as the bestest soccer player!

Eusebio da Silva Ferreira

The Portugal national football team was formed in 1914, their first game was on December 18,1921.Cristiano Ronaldo is the team captain. As of March 3, 2010 Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes also known as Pauleta scored forty seven goals in eighty eight matches, Cristiano Rolando has scored twenty two goals in sixty nine games Eusebio da Silva Ferreria (now retired) has scored seven hundred twenty seven goals in seven hundred fifteen games and is considered one of the best footballers of all time. He is from what is now Mozambique and is known as the "black panther" or the "the black pearl"and has helped the Portuguese national team reach third place at the 1966 world cup. He was well known for his speed and his powerful right-foot strike. Eusebio was named one of the best living one hundred and twenty five football players in 2004 in his FIFA 100 list. Ferreria is considered Portugal s most prized player and the first world-class African football player. Antonio Somoes said that "with eseubio we could be tri European Champions,without him maybe we could win league." Ouside of the Benifica stadium,the Estadion da Luz in Lisbon,Portugal stands a statue of Eusebio.He was the leading goal scorer in the 1966 world cup , he scored nine goals. Even though he is retired he is a constant presence with the Portuguese national team.