Portugal’s Euro 2008 Roster - 23 Players, No Maniche
May 13th, 2008 by Marco Pantanella
The tournament debut approaching, managers from all Euro 2008-bound will soon be making their final call-up lists for this Summer’s big competition. The deadline imposed by UEFA is officially May 28, but while other coaches prefer to keep their options open by making “pre-selections” of 28-30 players, Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari went straight to the point today and gave his final List of 23 who will be travelling to SwissAustria in June.
The biggest notable absentee is Inter midfielder Maniche, a player who regularly featured in the squad during the qualifier campaign. This season however, his playing time at Inter Milan and before, at Atletico Madrid) has been scarce at best, which is the likely reason why the Portuguese manager decided to drop him. Still, his absence makes for quite a shock.
If you want to know more about the selections, Portugoal.net has the full story here. Alternatively, you can check out the discussion over at BigSoccer.com here.
Here’s the full list:
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| Goalkeepers: | Club: |
| Ricardo Pereira | Betis |
| Quim Silva | Benfica |
| Rui Patricio | Sporting |
| . | |
| Defenders: | |
| Miguel Monteiro | Valencia |
| Jose Bosingwa | Porto |
| Paulo Ferreira | Chelsea |
| Ricardo Carvalho | Chelsea |
| Fernando Meira | Stuttgart |
| Bruno Alves | Porto |
| Pepe | Real Madrid |
| Jorge Ribeiro | Boavista |
| . | |
| Midfielders: | |
| Raul Meireles | Porto |
| Joao Moutinho | Sporting |
| Deco | Barcelona |
| Armando Petit | Benfica |
| Miguel Veloso | Sporting |
| . | |
| Forwards: | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester Utd |
| Simao Sabrosa | Atletico Madrid |
| Ricardo Quaresma | Porto |
| Nuno Gomes | Benfica |
| Hugo Almeida | Werder Bremen |
| Nani | Manchester Utd |
| Helder Postiga | Panathinaikos |
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shortage in the midfield and so many Forwards, in the words of Ray Hudson , “ey ey ey eyyyyyyy”
Mmmh not really Kev. Half of those forwards are wingers/midfielders (Ronaldo, Simao, Quaresma, Nani), the only “pure strikers” are Nuno Gomes and Helder Postiga.
In that sense, you can’t really fault Scolari for his choices.
you are correct Marco, btw got another excellent interview clip for translation you should post it here also.