Dont know if anyone will be interested but here you have some stories from Portuguese soccer:
My team is Benfica, from Lisbon, the biggest team in Portugal. But due to many issues, we have been underperforming in the past 2o years. So Porto, from the 2nd largest city, has been the dominant power. And even Sporting, the 2nd Lisbon club, has been doing better than us in some years.
Mario Jardel: Terrific goalscorer!!!! This guy was a killing machine wherever he played. Apparently we wanted to sign him from Brazil back in 93 or something but Porto just got him first. On the following seasons Jardel just became our worst nightmare!!! He was never really fast, never really looked threatening, but this guy was like a ghost....somehow, somewhere, he would get the ball inside the net....no matter what everyone would try to do to stop him. To make things worst, the guy ended up being transfered into a turkish team, with whom he kept trashing everyone....but then....out of the blue, he decides to come back to Portugal only this time to Sporting....and again he was deadly and Sporting won the league with this guy scoring tons. Sometimes he would say in the newspapers that he would have liked to play for Benfica also....but as that never happened, we are left terrified with the memories of all his goals for Porto and Sporting.
Paulinho Santos: a defensive player from Porto. Back in the 90´s Benfica had this portuguese player called Joao Vieira Pinto, whom we called our "golden boy". This guy from Porto would allways go on our "golden boy" so tough that often they would get both sent off having bloody battles. Actually Joao Pinto was known for being allways already on fire and this Paulinho Santos was simply too much for him. Their records have things like broken noses, broken legs, broken jaws....you name it, they broke each others 😉 Whenever we would play against Porto we would be like "Ohhh no!!! there goes Paulinho Santos....Joao will not last the game and we will have him sent off for god knows how many more matches". On a funny note, these guys played together on the portuguese national team. To stop their rivalry from becoming a problem, they were allways placed as roommates. This was kind of funny and apparently they never got into any fight using the national team collors. But when it was Benfica-Porto.....that was war!!!!!!!!!!!!
And these will have to be the worst....altough i could remember many many other stories but i think no one will be really interested 🙂
