[retired_hockeymom2]

Atfer the original thread was closed i decided to make a new 1

F.C. Porto - is a Portuguese Football Club which won two UEFA Champions League and two Intercontinental Cups which is now known as the FIFA Club World Championship. It was founded during the early 1890s to have been established in Porto in 1893 by a wine-salesman António Nicolau de Almeida. He first had contact with the game of football in one of his trips to England. The club was revived in 1906 by Monteiro da Costa.

After 51 years playing at the Estádio das Antas they moved to the Estádio do Dragão which was completed in 2003 and was one of the venues for Euro 2004.

Porto is, along with Sporting Lisbon and Benfica, one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal. The club has the best international record by a Portuguese team and has the second best internal record (just behind rivals Benfica) in the Portuguese Championship, having participated in it 72 times, playing 1988 games, winning 1287, drawing 369, losing 332, scoring 4427 goals and conceding 1876, having 3204 points as of the end of the 2005-06 season.

General Info in FM2007

Overview
| Nation | Portugal
| Year Founded | 1893
| Status | Professional
| Reputation | Continental
| Chairman Status | Loves the club
| Favoured Personel | Artur Jorge
| Fierce Rivals | Benfica, Sporting CP
| Other Rivals | Boavista
| Finances | Secure
| Estimated Value | £78M
| Transfer Budget | £4.1M
| Wage Budget | £300,000 p/w
| Bank Balance | £7.14M
| Stadium | Estádio do Dragão, Porto
| Stadium Capacity | 52,000 all-seater
| Training Facilities | Top training facilities
| Youth Facilities | Average youth facilities + Youth Academy
| Continental Competition | European Champions Cup
| Media Prediction | 1st
| Squad Average Age | 24
| Squad Personality | Ambitious

Current Squad

GK Helton
DF Ricardo Costa
DF Pepe
DF Pedro Emanuel [C]
DF Marek ÄŒech
MF Ibson
MF Ricardo Quaresma
MF Luis "Lucho" González
FW Lisandro Lopez
MF Anderson
MF Tarik Sektioui
DF Bosingwa
DF Jorge Fucile
DF Bruno Alves
MF Raul Meireles
MF Vieirinha
MF Paulo Assunção
FW Tomislav "Tomo" Å*okota
MF Jorginho
MF Alan
FW Hélder Postiga
GK Paulo Ribeiro
DF João Paulo
FW Adriano
FW Bruno Moraes
GK VÃ*tor BaÃ*a

Players out on loam
Leandro Bonfim on loan to Cruzeiro
Ezequias on loan to Beira-Mar
Diogo Valente on loan to MarÃ*timo
Paulo Machado on loan to União D. de Leiria
Maciel on loan to Sporting C. de Braga
Ivanildo on loan to União D. de Leiria
Nuno André Coelho on loan to R. Standard de Liège
Hélder Barbosa on loan to A. Académica de Coimbra
Hugo Almeida on loan to SV Werder Bremen
Leandro on loan to Palmeiras
Fatih Sonkaya on loan to A. Académica de Coimbra
Bruno Vale on loan to União D. de Leiria
Bruno Gama on loan to Sporting C. de Braga
César Peixoto on loan to RCD Espanyol
Leo Lima on loan to Grêmio Porto-Alegre

Squad Changes for 2006/07 season
In:

Jorge Fucile - Signed from Montevideo
Vieirinha - Signed from FC Porto B
Tarik Sektioui - Signed from AZ Alkmaar
Hélder Postiga - Return from AS Saint-Étienne
Diogo Valente - Signed from Boavista FC
Ezequias - Signed from Académica
João Paulo - Signed from UD Leiria

Out:

Benni McCarthy - Signed to Blackburn Rovers -2,5M€
Diego - Signed to Werder Bremen -6,5M€

Honours

National

Portuguese First League Championship
1934/35
Portuguese First Division Championship
1938/39; 1939/40; 1955/56; 1958/59; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1984/85; 1985/86; 1987/88; 1989/90; 1991/92; 1992/93; 1994/95; 1995/96; 1996/97; 1997/98; 1998/99; 2002/03, 2003/04, 2005/06
Portuguese Championship
1921/22; 1924/25; 1931/32; 1936/37
Portuguese Cup
1955/56; 1957/58; 1967/68; 1976/77; 1983/84; 1987/88; 1990/91; 1993/94; 1997/98; 1999/00; 2000/01; 2002/03; 2005/06
Portuguese Super Cup "Cândido de Oliveira"
1980/81; 1982/83; 1983/84; 1985/86; 1989/90; 1990/91; 1992/93; 1993/94; 1995/96; 1997/98; 1998/99; 2000/01; 2002/03; 2003/04; 2005/2006

International

European Cup/Champions' League: 2
1986/87; 2003/04
European Super Cup: 1
1986/87
Intercontinental Cup: 2
1987; 2004
UEFA Cup: 1
2002/03

2 tips, ask for more money to get 10mil and sell pepe to real madrid for 15-22m i got 20 so i have 30m to spend

[retired_hockeymom2]

Anyone gonna start as porto??

[retired_cherylzolk]

i think i might start one tonight

[retired_hockeymom2]

Originally posted by purered22:
i think i might start one tonight

:thup:

[retired_isabel]

Porto are a cracking side to manage. Anderson, Lisandro Lopez, Lucho Gonzalez, some cracking players. Its a challenge trying to win the champions league with them aswell.

[retired_hockeymom2]

Originally posted by danm2501:
Porto are a cracking side to manage. Anderson, Lisandro Lopez, Lucho Gonzalez, some cracking players. Its a challenge trying to win the champions league with them aswell.

Are you currently playing as them

[ShaneFrost1]

are there foreign rules in portugal??

if so also for brazilians you know former colony maybe they count as portugese???

[retired_hockeymom2]

Originally posted by purefun:
are there foreign rules in portugal??

if so also for brazilians you know former colony maybe they count as portugese???

Doesn't look like it and i haven't noticed anything like that when i bid for no eu players

[retired_cherylzolk]

who should i buy and does nani usually accepts to move to a rival club like porto?

[ShaneFrost1]

Originally posted by jonahno6:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by purefun:
are there foreign rules in portugal??

if so also for brazilians you know former colony maybe they count as portugese???

Doesn't look like it and i haven't noticed anything like that when i bid for no eu players

</BLOCKQUOTE>

thx mate