londonjambo Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Scotland has a population of a lttle over 5 million. Portugal has a population of only twice that, a little over 10 million. By comparison, England has a population of about 50 million. For many many years Portuguese football was dominated by their big three clubs, Benfica, Sporting and Porto. Tonight, they have had three sides play in the Europa League semis. Porto are almost certainly through, having beaten Villareal 5-1 in the first leg. The other semi features the other two Portuguese sides so the strong likelihood is that it will be an all Portuguese final. What are they doing right from which Scottish football can learn ?? Have they just been lucky enough to have a good one-off season ?? Or are there longer term trends which we should be studying to improve our league ? Any thoughts ?? GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scabber Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Scotland has a population of a lttle over 5 million. Portugal has a population of only twice that, a little over 10 million. By comparison, England has a population of about 50 million. For many many years Portuguese football was dominated by their big three clubs, Benfica, Sporting and Porto. Tonight, they have had three sides play in the Europa League semis. Porto are almost certainly through, having beaten Villareal 5-1 in the first leg. The other semi features the other two Portuguese sides so the strong likelihood is that it will be an all Portuguese final. What are they doing right from which Scottish football can learn ?? Have they just been lucky enough to have a good one-off season ?? Or are there longer term trends which we should be studying to improve our league ? Any thoughts ?? GC you forgot to mention the portugese national team that are a tad better then scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wright1989 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I'd imagine the climate has a small factor. Weather dictates our potential IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 using the world renowned football complex equation machine, i have fed the parameters into it and it told me that "portuguese players can play football a lot better than scottish players, now beat it and stoap asking stupid questions big nose". while i wasn't that impressed with it's manner, i found it hard to argue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
269miles Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Scotland has a population of a lttle over 5 million. Portugal has a population of only twice that, a little over 10 million. By comparison, England has a population of about 50 million. For many many years Portuguese football was dominated by their big three clubs, Benfica, Sporting and Porto. Tonight, they have had three sides play in the Europa League semis. Porto are almost certainly through, having beaten Villareal 5-1 in the first leg. The other semi features the other two Portuguese sides so the strong likelihood is that it will be an all Portuguese final. What are they doing right from which Scottish football can learn ?? Have they just been lucky enough to have a good one-off season ?? Or are there longer term trends which we should be studying to improve our league ? Any thoughts ?? GC Braga : Portuguese version of Arsenal with barely a native of Portugal in the team. A wealthy backer has floooded the team with Brazilians. Portugal is very helpful to Brazilians by offering passports and accepting a lower standard than is applied to any Brazilian who might want to ply his trade in UK/Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Le Clos Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Simple answer is they obviously work on developing skills which are useful at the higest level when players are young eg. touch, control, movement, dribbling, passing. Instead of selecting the biggest, strongest, fastest young players who can exploit the ridiculous amount of space on full size pitches when they are 11 or 12 years old, but then have no technical ability when they find themselves on the same size pitch but with much less space when they are 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebo Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Better colonies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussAsia Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Its due to the sheer number of South Americans (especially Brazilians) that can play there with little regard to Work Permit problems.. I remember an interview with Mourinho in his first coaching job of a low team in the top division.. he said that the chairman gave him a bit of money and sent him to Brazil to scout players.. he eventually came back with a few brazilians and his team did very well the next season.. the money he was given was next to nothing as well.. Simple way to improve SPL standard of football.. reduce/abolish the work permit demands for sports teams and watch the teams flood in foreign players that are of better technical standard but obviously just looking to get to the premiership.. it would work well.. SPL teams would do much better in Europe.. The Scottish national team would suffer but as a Hearts fan i only really care about us and not the national team.. It would never happen though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussAsia Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Just checked and the Portugese team was Uniao de Leiria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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