In December, 2007, Belaoued had a successful trial with the Portuguese side S.L. Benfica.
The son of former Benfica President José Ferreira Queimado, he was one of the greatest Portuguese rugby players ever.
He then joined Benfica as a youth coach, in his nearly ten year tenure, he coached the main team on two separate occasions, winning a Taça de Portugal against FC Porto.
He is also an avid soccer fan, particularly for the Portugal national soccer team and Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
During this time he turned down management positions at several top European clubs including Benfica and Lazio and also stated that he would not return to manage his former club PSG.
One was a Benfica shirt (his father was a fan) and the other was a Real Madrid shirt.
The club was founded on 15 May 1981 as a Sunday league team and is affiliate number 22 to the Portuguese club Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
He left Anfield to join up with old manager Graeme Souness at Benfica on 9 March 1999 for £750,000 – He only lasted five months in Portugal, however, before Brian Kidd paid £400,000 to bring him to Blackburn Rovers on 26 August 1999 – three months after their relegation from the Premier League and one day before Harkness's 28th birthday.
The match was played on 25 June 1939 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Académica de Coimbra and Benfica.
Kaiserlautern also enjoyed a good run in their Champions League debut – topping a group also containing Benfica, PSV Eindhoven and HJK Helsinki and reaching the quarter-finals before being knocked out 6–0 on aggregate by fellow Germans Bayern Munich.
Born in Nacala, Portuguese Mozambique from a colonial White African family, Costa Pereira was noticed by S.L. Benfica while playing with Clube Ferroviário de Lourenço Marques.
Born in Lisbon, Basto was a graduate of hometown S.L. Benfica's youth system, and began playing professionally with its feeder club, F.C. Alverca, being recalled for good in January 1998.
Portuguese teams, for instance, had a large number of Yugoslavian players in the early 1990s, and that was reflected by players with names such as Valentim Ivic (of Valentim Loureiro and Tomislav Ivic, then Boavista FC chairman and S.L. Benfica manager, respectively).
In 1968 after winning the Portuguese League and reaching the European Cup final, against Manchester United in a final played at the Wembley Stadium, lost after extra time, S.L. Benfica were presented with European Team of the Year by France Football.
Over the years fans of GKS got to witness their team take on the likes of Sportul Studentsc Bucharest, Rangers, Club Brugge, Galatasaray, Benfica, Aris, Girondins Bordeaux and twice Bayer Leverkusen.
The former netted 15 goals in only 26 games in his first season, helping the Philips outfit to an historic treble – he appeared 105 minutes in the campaign's European Cup final, a 0–0 penalty shootout win against S.L. Benfica.
Born in Huambo, Angola, to Portuguese settlers, Roque returned to his country and started his football career at Amora FC, moving at age 17 to Benfica and having no impact whatsoever with its first team.
In a career greatly hampered by injuries, Hernâni only played one solid season as a professional, 1987–88, appearing in 23 out of 38 matches to help the Sado club finish in eighth position and attracting attention of top division powerhouse S.L. Benfica, which signed him in the subsequent off-season.
Yartey began his youth and professional career with Ghanaian club All Blacks F.C., before joining S.L. Benfica on a 1-year loan deal with a buy option at the end of the contract.
John Edward Smith, commonly known as Ted Smith, was an English full back who represented Millwall F.C. in the late 1930s, and then coached Benfica from 1948 to 1952 guiding Benfica to their first internacional trophy.
In 1996, Soares joined Benfica after he caught their attention in a late goal in 1995-96 season, appearing sporadically over the course of two seasons, partnering with Bermudez, Hélder, and Tahar.
D'Água is the daughter of S.L. Benfica star José Águas, who played for the club in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cajuda returned to Portugal midway through 2006–07 campaign joining Vitória de Guimarães – being announced on Christmas Day – which he led to promotion and a third position in the following year, just narrowly surpassing S.L. Benfica for the last UEFA Champions League berth and only to lose controversially in the last qualifying round against FC Basel of Switzerland.
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.
Michel Souza da Silva, simply known as Michel (born 22 August 1986 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Al-Wakrah Sport Club on loan from S.L. Benfica, as a striker.
Later that season in the second leg of the semi-final in Austria, Leafe was at the centre of a massive row when deciding that the Rapid Vienna forward Robert Dienst had dived in the Benfica penalty area in the last minutes of the game.
In the 2007 summer, several clubs showed interested in Amorim's services, but he insisted on not leaving, with Belenenses also rejecting bids from S.L. Benfica, Sporting de Braga, F.C. Porto, FC Schalke 04, Tottenham Hotspur and Toulouse FC.
In 1927, the clubs of Benfica, the Royal Football Club, Carcavelinhos, Ginasio and Sporting came together to form the Portuguese Rugby Federation.