Did you know some interesting facts and curiosities about Portugal 2010 World Cup Nation?

While the world is pulsating football fever and nations around the world gather to experience this important event, FIFA Soccer World Cup, take the opportunity to discover Portugal incredibly fun facts and interesting facts about South Africa Qualifiers 2010.

About the country:

A global sea power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of their wealth and status because of the three great misfortune to his glory days.Before Lisbon was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1755, then the country was occupied during the Napoleonic wars, and finally lost its richest colony of Portugal, Brazil, 1822nd independence Did you know that:

• In a Portuguese bullfighting the bull is not killed, but brought in eight men. E 'illegal to kill the bull.
• Fado, Fado is played on a guitar, traditional music urban folk. It is rather melancholy.
• Portugal does not recognize SpanishSovereignty over the territory of Olivenza to a difference of interpretation of the Vienna Convention of 1815 and the 1801 Treaty of Badajoz is based.
• on the outskirts of Lisbon, Estoril Casino is the largest gambling outlet in Europe.
• Portugal was known as Luisitania during the Roman period.
• Founded in 1290, the University of Coimbra is one of the oldest universities in Europe.
• The man who discovered the sea route to India, Vasco da Gama wasPortuguese.
• The longest bridge in Europe is the Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon.
• In World War I, Portugal was a British ally.
• Charles II gave to the people of Madeira a special right to sell wine in England and all its colonies.
• Portuguese is the official language of 9 countries.
• Brazil was discovered by the Portuguese Pedro Alvarez Cabral.
• The world's first commercial wave power plant for electricity generation has increased from the coastfrom Portugal in 2006.
• In 1986 Portugal joined the European Union.
• Portugal was founded by Alfonso Henriques, in 1152nd
• The Kingdom of Portugal lasted 1139-1910. The country is a republic ever since.
• Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz became the first person to sail around the southern tip of Africa, who called the Cape of Good Hope.
• In 1522, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan - was the first - funded by SpainComplete a circumnavigation of the world.
• The Last King of Portugal, King Manuel II, spent his life in exile in Twickenham, a suburb of London, after being deposed in 1910.
• The Anglo-Portuguese alliance, signed in 1373, is the oldest alliance in the world still in force.

About the team:

A strong team, a Selecção The Quinas over the years has found some impressive football in the past, and reached the semifinals in the 2006 World CupGermany, unbeaten in the group stage. Did you know that:

• Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz has been in Mozambique, was born in a neighboring country of South Africa and was in fact up to now the coach of the South African experience, which may still prove valuable in Portugal the effort to get to the bottom this time.
• South Africa 2010 will be the fifth aspect of Portugal's FIFA World Cup.
• 2008 FIFA World Player Cristiano Ronaldo, even thoughplays a role in qualifying for the World Cup in Portugal during submissive is known for its ability to rise to great and is certainly a man for the clock to 2010 in South Africa.

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