Soccer World Cup 2010 / Portugal

This article covers the Portuguese national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa .

qualification

The Portuguese started successfully in the World Cup qualification with a clear victory in Malta. In their first home game against Denmark , the Portuguese led for a long time and only had to accept an equalizer from Nicklas Bendtner in the 83rd minute , but Deco managed to renew the lead for Portugal just three minutes later. The guests from Denmark turned things around in the last five minutes when Christian Poulsen scored the equalizer and Daniel Jensen even secured the Danes' victory in stoppage time.

This setback was followed by other results that made participation in the 2010 World Cup a long way off, when the Portuguese national team drew 0-0 three times in a row. It was only in the sixth game of qualification that Hugo Almeida was able to break the spell in Tirana when he brought the guests into the lead. After Erjon Bogdani was able to equalize for Albania shortly afterwards , Bruno Alves only scored the winning goal in stoppage time. In the next four games, the Portuguese were able to improve when they drew in Denmark, beat Hungary twice and defeated Malta at the end of the qualification .

After ten games in the group, Portugal finished second and fought in two play-off games against Bosnia and Herzegovina for participation in the World Cup. The Portuguese won both the first and second leg 1-0 and thus qualified for the 2010 World Cup . Portugal's top scorer during qualifying was Simão , who scored four goals. Portugal started the 2010 World Cup in a group with Ivory Coast , North Korea and Brazil .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Denmark	16: 5	21st
2	Portugal	17: 5	19th
3	Sweden	13: 5	18th
4th	Hungary	10: 8	16
5	Albania	6:13	7th
6th	Malta	0:26	1

	Malta - Portugal		0: 4 (0: 1)
	Goalscorers: Brian Said (own goal), Hugo Almeida , Simão , Nani
	Portugal - Denmark		2: 3 (1: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nani , Deco ; Nicklas Bendtner , Christian Poulsen , Daniel Jensen
	Sweden - Portugal		0: 0 (0: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nothing
	Portugal - Albania		0: 0 (0: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nothing
	Portugal - Sweden		0: 0 (0: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nothing
	Albania - Portugal		1: 2 (1: 1)
	Goal scorers: Erjon Bogdani ; Hugo Almeida , Bruno Alves
	Denmark - Portugal		1: 1 (1: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nicklas Bendtner ; Liédson
	Hungary - Portugal		0: 1 (0: 1)
	Goal scorers: Pepe
	Portugal - Hungary		3: 0 (1: 0)
	Goal scorers: Simão (2), Liédson
	Portugal - Malta		4: 0 (2: 0)
	Goal scorers: Nani , Simão , Miguel Veloso , Arnaldo Edi Lopes da Silva
	Portugal - Bosnia and Herzegovina		1: 0 (1: 0)
	Goal scorers: Bruno Alves
	Bosnia and Herzegovina - Portugal		0: 1 (0: 0)
	Goal scorers: Raúl Meireles

Portuguese contingent

Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz announced the provisional line-up of 24 players on May 10, 2010, with Rui Patrício , João Moutinho (both Sporting Lisbon), Manuel Fernandes (Valencia CF ), Ariza Makukula (Kayserispor), Eliseu (Real Zaragoza) ) and Rúben Amorim (Benfica Lisbon) nominated six players on call. On June 1, the final squad size was reached with the waiver of Zé Castro . On June 8, 2010, Nani injured his shoulder. Ruben Amorim was nominated for him.

The 23-man squad:

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Eduardo	Sporting Braga	09/19/1982	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Beto	FC Porto	05/01/1982	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Daniel Fernandes	Iraklis Thessaloniki	09/25/1983	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Bruno Alves	FC Porto	11/27/1981	4th	0	0	0	0
3	Paulo Ferreira	Chelsea FC	January 18, 1979	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Rolando	FC Porto	08/31/1985	0	0	0	0	0
6th	Ricardo Carvalho	Chelsea FC	05/18/1978	4th	0	0	0	0
13	Miguel	Valencia CF	01/04/1980	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Pepe	real Madrid	02/26/1983	2	0	1	0	0
21st	Ricardo Costa	Lille OSC	05/16/1981	2	0	0	0	1
23	Fábio Coentrão	Benfica Lisbon	03/11/1988	4th	0	1	0	0
midfield player
5	You there	Málaga CF	06/27/1980	2	0	1	0	0
8th	Pedro Mendes	Sporting Lisbon	02/26/1979	4th	0	1	0	0
10	Danny	Zenit Saint Petersburg	08/07/1983	3	0	0	0	0
11	Simão Sabrosa	Atlético Madrid	10/31/1979	4th	1	0	0	0
14th	Miguel Veloso	Sporting Lisbon	05/11/1986	2	0	0	0	0
16	Raúl Meireles	FC Porto	03/17/1983	4th	1	0	0	0
17th	Ruben Amorim	Benfica Lisbon	01/27/1985	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Tiago	Atlético Madrid	05/02/1981	4th	2	2	0	0
20th	Deco	Chelsea FC	08/27/1977	1	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	Cristiano Ronaldo	real Madrid	02/05/1985	4th	1	1	0	0
9	Liédson	Sporting Lisbon	December 17, 1977	3	1	0	0	0
18th	Hugo Almeida	SV Werder Bremen	05/23/1984	2	1	1	0	0
Trainer
	Carlos Queiroz		03/01/1953

Games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	5: 2	7th
2	Portugal	7-0	5
3	Ivory Coast	4: 3	4th
4th	North Korea	1:12	0

After a slow start to the tournament with a goalless draw against the Ivory Coast, the Portuguese came against North Korea in a playing mood. With 7-0 they sent the Asians off the field and thus achieved the highest victory of the tournament. The excellent goal difference then made it possible to secure progress to second in the group with a draw against Brazil in the last game.

• Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 4 p.m. in Port Elizabeth Ivory Coast - Portugal 0-0
  
• Monday, June 21, 2010, 1.30 p.m. in Cape Town Portugal - North Korea 7: 0 (1: 0)
  
• Friday, June 25, 2010, 4 p.m. in Durban Portugal - Brazil 0-0
  

Final round

Round of 16

The selection of Portugal came second in Group G in the round of 16 against neighboring Spain , the winner of Group H.

• Tuesday June 29, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Cape Town Spain - Portugal 1: 0 (0: 0)
  

Web links

• Results of the Portuguese national team during qualification
• All matches of the preliminary round at a glance
• Squad Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Malta - Portugal (match report)
2. ↑ Portugal - Denmark (match report)
3. ↑ Albania - Portugal (match report)
4. ↑ The World Cup will take place without Nani, published on June 8, 2010 on kicker.de
5. ↑ FPF envia 23 nomes para a FIFA ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.