8 October – At football, Luxembourg beats Portugal 4-2, recording Luxembourg's first victory in international football since 1951.
Araújo played 9 games and scored 5 goals for the Portugal national team.
During the 1966 World Cup it was used by the Portuguese national team as a training ground and has also had the honour of hosting a soccer school run by Brazilian legend Jairzinho during the summer of 1993.
After half an hour of the first game on 16 June against Portugal, with the Irish already trailing 3–0, goalkeeper Ned Courtney was injured and the selectors put Martin in goal.
In addition to his Australian citizenship, Ferreira also has Portuguese citizenship and is eligible to play for the Portuguese national team.
The club has a distinct Portuguese background, and therefore its colours are that of the Portuguese national football team.
He is also an avid soccer fan, particularly for the Portugal national soccer team and Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
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Mexico lost to Argentina, and France beat Spain, so while Spain and Mexico were eliminated earlier than the seedings would have predicted, Ukraine and Portugal went farther than the seedings predicted, Portugal going on to reach the semi-finals.
After practically all of the Portuguese national team defected following the infamous Saltillo Affair at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Jesus was chosen by manager Juca as his starter for the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying campaign.
Pinho was playing in Portugals first ever international game, 18 December 1921 in Madrid against Spain, in a game Portugal lost 1-3.
The following national team matches were held in the stadium as preparations for the World Cup 2010.
After UEFA Euro 2008, Eduardo was called for new national team coach Carlos Queiroz for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Denmark, where he played understudy to Quim.
As a Porto player, Vital appeared once for Portugal, playing 45 minutes in a 4–0 home win against Cyprus for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and scoring the third.
The Portuguese national team based their training camp for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals at Marienfeld in Kreis Gütersloh, so a public training session of the soccer stars took place in Gütersloh.
An international for 12 years, Hilário represented the Portuguese national team at the 1966 World Cup.
Whilst with Benfica, Pinto's career was threatened in late 1992 by a collapsed lung during an international match for Portugal in Scotland for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers – he did recover, but was unable to help Benfica win the title.
On 10 September 2013, shortly after having moved to Porto, Licá made his debut for the Portuguese national team, playing the last six minutes of a 1–3 friendly loss with Brazil in Boston, United States.
Perceived by many as one of the weaker nations in the World Cup, Angola were paired with former colonial masters and Euro 2004 runners-up Portugal, then FIFA World Ranked 4th nation and seeds Mexico, and previous qualifier Iran in Group D.
He was the Head of the Football Departament of Benfica, during their 1960s Golden Era, until 1964 when he was called to work for the Portugal national football team as seleccionador ("the selector"), with Otto Glória as the coach.
In the late 70s Wilson accumulated duties at Vitória de Guimarães and the Portuguese national team, being in charge of the latter during the unsuccessful UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying campaign.
Coelho was capped for Portugal at under-19 level, appearing for the nation at the 2006 UEFA European Championship and the 2006 Lusophony Games.
The Portuguese National Football Team was based here during the European Championships of 2012 held in Poland and Ukraine.
Examples are the flags of the city of São Paulo and the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira, the coat of arms of several Portuguese and Brazilian cities and municipalities, the badges of the Portuguese and Brazil national football teams and the roundels of the Portuguese Air Force aircraft.
He made his debut for Ireland on 22 May 1949 in a 1–0 win against Portugal at Dalymount Park.
In 1995, he joined António Oliveira's staff as the Portuguese national team prepared for UEFA Euro 1996, retaining his assistant post under the next coach, former Benfica player and manager Artur Jorge; after the team's failure to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the pair was sacked.
He won the Cup of Portugal in the 1967/68 season game in which defeated FC Porto V. Setubal 2-1.After taking over as one of the best central defenders of his generation, Rolando would be required to represent the National A selection, and was finally the international 8 times,Rolando gained 8 caps for Portugal and made his debut 11 December 1968 in Piraeus against Greece, in a 2-4 defeat.
In 1991 he refereed two matches at the FIFA World Youth Championship - a group stage match between Brazil and the Ivory Coast which ended 2-1 and a further quarter-final in which Portugal defeated Mexico 2-1.
In the Euro 2004 quarter-final between England and Portugal at Lisbon, with the score at 1–1, he disallowed a goal by Sol Campbell in the 89th minute due to a foul by John Terry on the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo Pereira.
Vítor Manuel Lopes dos Santos (born 1 June 1958 in Chimoio, Mozambique) is a former Portuguese footballer who played midfielder at top level for Sporting Braga, and gained 1 cap for the Portugal national team.
The city is the home of two Portuguese sports clubs: Sporting Clube de Espinho and Associação Académica de Espinho, and former Portugal national football team player Fernando Couto.