Portugal

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Portugal

Team Name	Portugal
Stadium	n/a
Manager	Carlos Queiroz
Captain	Nuno Gomes
Confederation	UEFA
Five Star Ranking

The Portugal National Team (pronounced PORCH-a-gawl) are one of the newly licensed teams in PES2008. They play in a home strip of maroon and green, and an away strip of white.

Portugal, although having lost stars such as Figo, F. Couto and Rui Costa recently to retirement, still boast a very impressive team. Quality can be found throughout the team; in defense with the likes of Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira; in midfield with Maniche, Miguel Veloso and Joao Moutinho and in attack with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ricardo Quaresma. Many gamers bemoan the team's lack of a world class striker, having to rely on Nuno Gomes, Hugo Almeida or Helder Postiga to spearhead their attack.

In real life the Brazilian Pepe is on the Portugese squad, but this cannot be achieved in PES, due to the inability to change a player's nationality.

In the Portugal side there are two players which can perform certain tricks, Cristiano Ronaldo can do the heel kick and Ricardo Quaresma can do the Rabona.

Pos.	Name	Club
GK	Ricardo	Real Betis
CB	Pepe	Real Madrid
CB	Ricardo Carvalho	Chelsea
RB	Jose Bosingwa	Chelsea
LB	Paulo Ferreira	Chelsea
DMF	Petit	1. FC Koln
CMF	Deco	Chelsea
CMF	Joao Moutinho	Sporting CP
SMF	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
SMF	Simao	Atletico Madrid
CF	Nuno Gomes (c)	Benfica
GK	Nuno	Porto
GK	Rui Patricio	Sporting CP
CB	Bruno Alves	Porto
CB	Fernando Meira	Zenit St. Petersburg
SB	Jorge Ribeiro	Benfica
SB	Miguel	Valencia
DMF	Miguel Veloso	Sporting CP
CMF	Raul Meireles	Porto
SMF	Nani	Manchester United
SMF	Ricardo Quaresma	Internazionale
CF	Hugo Almeida	Werder Bremen
CF	Helder Postiga	Sporting CP

Additional Key Players

Position	Name	Club	Status
Goalkeeper	Quim	Benfica	Register in place of Ricardo
Midfielder	Maniche	1. FC Koln	Register in place of retired Petit
Midfielder	Danny	Zenit St. Petersburg	Register
Midfielder	Duda	Mallorca	Register
Forward	Liedson	Sporting CP	Register