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Luís Aurélio
Luís Miguel Coimbra Aurélio (born 17 August 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Castrense. Club career Born in Beja, Aurélio played his early years as a senior in the lower leagues, starting with FC Castrense in the regional championships then representing, in quick succession, U.D. Santana, Moreirense FC, Atlético S.C. and C.D. Tondela in the third division. In the 2011–12 season, with the latter club, he contributed 23 games and one goal as it promoted to the second tier for the first time ever. Aurélio made his professional debut on 12 August 2012, playing the first half of a 2–2 home draw against FC Porto B. He scored a career-best eight goals in that campaign, helping the team easily retain their newly acquired status; highlights included a hat-trick in the 3–0 away victory over S.C. Braga B on 3 February 2013. In the 2013 off-season, Aurélio returned to Moreirense who now competed in division two. He netted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beja, Portugal
Beja (), officially the City of Beja (), is a city and a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,854, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 21,658 in 2001. The municipality is the capital of the Beja District. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. The Portuguese Air Force has an airbase in the area – the Beja Airbase, Air Base No. 11. History Situated on a hill, commanding a strategic position over the vast plains of the Baixo Alentejo, Beja was already an important place in antiquity. Already inhabited in Celtici, Celtic times, the town was later named ''Pax Julia'' by Julius Caesar in 48 BCE, when he made peace with the Lusitanians. He raised the town to be the capital of the southernmost province of Lusitania (Santarém and Braga were the other capitals of the ''conventi''). During the reign of emperor Augustus the thriving town became Pax Augusta. It was already then a strategic road j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAPO (company)
The Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online (SAPO, ) is a Portuguese portal and provider of products and services for the Internet. Founded in 1995 as a search engine, it is the largest internet portal in Portugal. The current SAPO logo was created in 2014. SAPO is an information hub and receives over 61 million visits per month. Currently, SAPO is produced by MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia. History SAPO was created on September 4, 1995, at the University of Aveiro by six students in the Center for Informatics of the university. The name originated from the acronym of the service, S.A.P. (), which later evolved into , giving rise to the acronym SAPO. Another factor in the name was Sapo Cocas, which is the European Portuguese name of Kermit the Frog. In 1997, SAPO became the property of the company Navegante and began commercial operation. At some point, it became part of Altice Portugal. Discontinued services SAPO Fotos SAPO Fotos was an online photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telekom TV
Telekom TV (previously Dolce) is a satellite television platform of Telekom Romania, a Romanian telephony and Internet provider. It operates on the satellite: 39°E, Hellas Sat 3. As of 2008, Dolce has more than 500.000 customers. Own channels ''Telekom Sport'' (named Dolce Sport until 12 September 2017) is a sports television that was launched on 28 July 2010, available only in the Telekom and the NextGen networks. It is also broadcast in high definition and has five secondary channels from ''Telekom'' ''Sport 2'' to ''6''. It has been broadcasting, among other competitions, matches from Liga I, Cupa României, Liga II, UEFA Champions League (continuously from 2010), UEFA Europa League Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Turkish Super Cup (in year 2015), Women's and Men's EHF Champions League, WTA Tour Championships (until 2016), Formula One (since the 2014 season), ATP World Tour Masters 1000, NBA (continuously since 2010) NFL, NHL, Italian Volleyball League In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga I
Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation from and to Liga II. The teams play 30 matches each in the regular season, before entering the championship play-offs or the relegation play-outs according to their position in the regular table. Liga I was established in 1909 and commenced play for the 1909–10 Divizia A, 1909–10 campaign, being currently 25th in UEFA's UEFA coefficient#League coefficient, league coefficient ranking list. It is administered by the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal, also known by the acronym LPF. Before the 2006–07 Liga I, 2006–07 season, the competition was known as ''Divizia A'', but the name had to be changed following the finding that someone else had registered that trademark. The best p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player or manager who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under a contract at present but who is allowed to solicit offers from other teams. In some circumstances, the free agent's options are limited by the league's rules. Free agency was severely restricted in many sports leagues, instead clubs had a reserve clause which allowed them to retain players indefinitely. Usage Association football In professional association football, a free agent is either a player that has been released by a professional association football club and now is no longer affiliated with any league, or a player whose contract with their current club has expired and is thus free to join any other club under the terms of the Bosman ruling. Free agents do not have to be signed during the normal transfer window that is implemented in some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNN Portugal
Cable News Network Portugal, also known as CNN Portugal and abbreviated as CNN PT, is a Portugal, Portuguese cable television, basic cable and satellite television news television channel, channel owned by Media Capital. It was launched on 26 February 2009 as TVI 24, the 24-hour news cycle, 24-hour news channel of the terrestrial network Televisão Independente. The network's name was then changed to CNN Portugal on 22 November 2021. Media Capital has a brand licensing, licensing agreement with the American news channel CNN, CNN Worldwide owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, EMEA division. History As TVI 24 TVI 24 was on TVI's drawing board for several years, but plans for its official launch officially commenced in 2008. It was initially expected to launch on 20 February 2009, on TVI's anniversary; however, in late January, it was postponed to 26 February due to the Carnaval holidays. The network was then assigned channel 7 on most pay television lineup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Público (newspaper)
Público may refer to: * ' (Portugal), a Portuguese newspaper * ' (Spain), a Spanish newspaper launched in September 2007 * a system of land transport in Puerto Rico Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million year-round. It is funded primarily with both Government of Puerto R ... system, similar to share taxis {{DEFAULTSORT:Publico ca:Público ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeira
Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of the Canary Islands, Spain, west of the Morocco and southwest of mainland Portugal. Madeira sits on the African Plate, African Tectonic Plate, but is culturally, politically and ethnically associated with Europe, with its population predominantly descended from Portuguese settlers. Its population was 251,060 in 2021. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, on the main island's south coast. The archipelago includes the islands of Madeira Island, Madeira, Porto Santo Island, Porto Santo, and the Desertas Islands, Desertas, administered together with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands. Roughly half of the population lives in Funchal. The region has political and administrative autonomy through the Autonomous Regions of Portugal#Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Primeira Liga
The 2015–16 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 82nd season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. The fixtures were determined by draw on 4 July 2015. The season began on 14 August 2015 and concluded on 15 May 2016. S.L. Benfica, Benfica won their third consecutive and 35th overall title, after beating C.D. Nacional, Nacional 4–1 in their last match. They finished the league with a record 88 points in 34 matches (from 29 wins and one draw), two points more than runners-up Sporting CP. C.D. Tondela, Tondela and C.F. União, União da Madeira entered the season as the two promoted teams from the 2014–15 Segunda Liga. On the last matchday, both teams were at risk of returning to the second division, but the combination of their results dictated União da Madeira's relegation alongside Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F., Académica. Teams For the second consecutive season, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guimarães
Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town" in Europe. The Nicolinas are the city's main festivities. Guimarães is referred as the capital of the Ave Subregion (one of the most industrialised subregions in the country), and located in the historical Minho Province. The municipality has a population of 156,830 inhabitants according to the most recent data of 2021 in an area of . The current mayor is Domingos Bragança, of the Socialist Party. Guimarães, along with Maribor, Slovenia, was the European Capital of Culture in 2012. Guimarães also received the 2026 European Green Capital Award. The city was settled in the 9th century, at which time it was called ''Vimaranes''. This name might have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Substitute (association Football)
In association football, a substitute is a player who is brought on to the pitch during a match in exchange for an existing player. Substitutions are generally made to replace a player who has become tired or injured, or who is performing poorly, or for tactical reasons (such as bringing a striker on in place of a defender). A player who has been substituted during a match takes no further part in the game, in games played under the standard International Football Association Board Laws of the Game. Substitutions were officially added to the Laws of the Game in 1958. Prior to this most games were played with no changes permitted at all, with occasional exceptions in cases of extreme injury or players not arriving to matches on time. The number of substitutes has risen over time as well as the number of reserve players allowed to be nominated. It is now common for games to allow a maximum of 5 substitutions; some competitions allow for an additional substitution when playing ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Football League System
The Portuguese football league system consists of several leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation. Reserve teams are allowed to compete in the main league system, as is the case with most of Europe. However, they are not allowed to compete in the same tier as their senior team, thus no reserve team has ever competed in Portugal's top flight, the Primeira Liga. Men's league system The Portuguese men's football league system consists of four national divisions and up to four district leagues (depending on the district). National leagues All four national divisions provide access to the Portuguese Cup. The first two leagues are operated by the Portuguese Professional Football League, and they also guarantee participation in the Portuguese League Cup. Lastly, the third and fourth divisions are divided into two and four leagues respectively and are the only divisions operated by the Portuguese Football Federation. The federation announced the creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
