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2 unusual facts about Sporting Clube de Portugal


João Lusevikueno

In 1991 at the age of 19 he moved to Portugal and played basketball in Leiria having participated in the local Youth Championship playing against teams such as Sporting Clube de Portugal, Barreirense and Academica, while he was studying at Domingos Sequeira Secondary School in Leiria.

Jornal Sporting

Jornal Sporting is a weekly newspaper based on sports practiced at Sporting Clube de Portugal's.


1941–42 Taça de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal was the defending champion but lost in the semi-finals to Vitória Sport Clube.

André Cruz

He played central defender with Flamengo, A.C. Milan, Standard Liège, Sporting Clube de Portugal and the Brazilian national team.

Belarmino

We again see Belarmino training, this time outside on the track of Sporting Clube de Portugal’s old Alvalade stadium.

Bert Slater

They also beat Sporting Clube de Portugal and Anderlecht to amazingly reach the European Cup semi-final, here they came up against cup favourites A.C Milan who proved to be too strong for Dundee, Milan went on to lift the trophy at Wembley Stadium.

Carlos Carvalhal

Returning to Setúbal for the 2007–08 campaign, Carvalhal enjoyed his best year as a manager, leading the Sadinos to the sixth position in the league – with subsequent UEFA Cup qualification, with the club posting one of the best defensive records in Europe that year – and victory in the inaugural edition of the domestic League Cup, against Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Cédric Soares

Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares (born 31 August 1991 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal as a right defender.

João Azevedo

He played the two next seasons at Luso Barreiro, before finally moving to Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1935/36, where he replaced the Brazilian Jaguaré Bezerra de Vasconcelos, who afterwards went on to impress with Olympique Marseille.

Marco Materazzi

Giuseppe was also a former football coach and manager of teams such as Pisa, Lazio, Sporting CP and Tianjin Teda.

Mário Wilson

Born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, Wilson joined Sporting Clube de Portugal in 1949 aged 19, arriving from local Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques.

Mbo Mpenza

During the start of his career, Mbo shared clubs with Émile, until he eventually left Standard Liège for Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he won the 2000 league championship as a January transfer.

Nicolai Vollquartz

It was another five years before he officiated a Champions League group stage match – the Group B match between Sporting CP and Spartak Moscow on 5 December 2006 – but it was to be his only experience in the group stage.

Oliver Stöckli

In February 2008 his former club, FC Basel, signed him on a short term loan deal after their first team goalkeeper, Franco Costanzo, was injured during a UEFA Cup match against Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Paulo Futre

Born in Montijo, Setúbal District, Futre first appeared professionally in 1983–84, as a 17-year-old for Sporting Clube de Portugal, whose youth system he had joined at the age of nine.

After exploding at Sporting well before his 20th birthday, he soon moved to Portowinning the 1987 European Cup – after which he embarked in an extensive career, having represented clubs in Spain, France, Italy and Japan, most notably Atlético Madrid.

Rabiu Ibrahim

In the summer of 2007 he signed for Sporting Clube de Portugal for 450,000 in a joint ownership agreement with his previous club, Gateway FC.

Rodrigo Tello

He quickly made a good impression, being named the best midfielder in the country in 2000, and was transferred to Sporting Clube de Portugal for a fee of 7 million in January of the following year, at the same time as compatriot Mario Cáceres; at the time, it was a club record for the top division side.

Rodrigo Tiuí

Tiuí moved to Sporting Clube de Portugal in January 2008, with the team buying half of the player's rights from C.A. Rentistas (his rights were in fact held by an investing company).

Roger De Sá

He is the son of Octávio Augusto César de Sá (1935–1990), himself a former goalkeeper who played for Sporting Lisbon between 1956 and 1960.

Valentín Viola

Valentín Nicolás Viola (born 28 August 1991, in Moreno) is an Argentinian football player who plays as a forward for Racing Club on loan from Sporting Clube de Portugal, in the Portuguese Primeira Liga.

William Carvalho

Born in Luanda, Angola, Carvalho moved to Portugal as an infant, and joined Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth system at the age of 13.

Wilson Eduardo

Wilson Bruno Naval da Costa Eduardo (born 8 July 1990 in Pedras Rubras, Maia, Porto) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal as a forward.


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Daniel Gonçalves

In 2011/2012 season started work at Sporting Clube de Portugal Professional Team as Technical Observation and Analysis, were he could develop his skills working with several remarkable coaches such as: Domingos Paciência, Ricardo Sá Pinto, Jorge Castelo, Oceano Cruz, Franky Vercauteren, Rui Sampaio, Jesualdo Ferreira e José Dominguez.