Surely, Portugal is not consider a serious football nation?

Question

I notice that Portugal doesn't have it's own category in the Y.A. list.

What has the National team ever won?

lilsammy, where's the sarcasm? You can start laughing wherever you like. But giving an anwer to the question is the purpose of this site.

Answer 1

They are considered a serious football nation. They have a very good competition in europe, there is often a portugese club in the champions league.

Answer 2

They are so good that everyone keeps talking about them! Portugal is and always was a serious football nation. And Portuguese should should and are proud of their national team and their football. By the way, there are some great teams in Portugal, such as Benfica, Porto and Sporting! If some people don't know about them is because they are not paying enought attention to Champions League and UEFA Cup.

Answer 3

The problem for Portugal is that while they have amazing players (hence their World Cup performance), their players go to Spain, England, and Italy for league play becuase the money is so much greater. In addition, the level of play is higher in those leagues, so Portugal winds up not having a lot of football at home, but that doesn't mean they don't have a good players, or strong traditions in the sport.

Answer 4

As serious as any other 32 participants and nothing above it.
They had never won anything as a national team, and their club victories date some 20 or 40 years ago. Basically Portuguese football is below average

Answer 5

Portugal's football is good enough for other clubs to go there and buy buy buy and buy their players.
Porugal football is good enough to produce quality players like Figo quality, and Eusebio quality and Ronaldo quality and good enough t produce QUALITY JEALOUSY everywhere including Yahoo Answers !!

Answer 6

if portugal is not serious then how portugal reached at semi final.
this shows that portugal has logging to be called world champion

Answer 7

So...I'm sure the US does. Does the meant the US is a serious football nation... LMAO

Answer 8

it is type of of a chicken or egg challenge! ought to it is the Iberians call themselves celts or is it that the Irish/British and so on are not from now on celts yet specially descendants of proto- Iberians? Celtic lifestyle proper became meant to have all started in Austria approx one thousand BC, in spite of the indisputable fact that it truly is wisely popular in present day archaeology that the British Isles were under no circumstances 'invaded' in any wide numbers by technique of those needed ecu human beings (in spite of the indisputable fact that a number of them did in reality enter Spain.). some specially Gaulish tribes arrived in southern England in spite of the indisputable fact that the individuals in parts we call celtic today look specially the descendents of hunter gatherers and neolithic farmers,maximum of whom got here down the former western seaboard commerce route from Iberia.certainly many of the earliest metals modern in Britain got here from prehistoric Spain. it truly is likely the celtic language or better wisely a primitive sort of it, became extant in Britain/eire no later than the bronze age, and became likely also a lot wider unfold in the time of Europe on the time. by technique of an similar token, on the maternal aspect the individuals of Iceland have usually ancestry from Britain/eire so that they could declare 'celtic' ancestry too. And certainly maximum individuals in England,exceptionally in western counties consisting of Devon and Dorset, which nevertheless even undergo celtic names, also share an similar ancestry as their celtic cousins; in reality the similarities are better than the adjustments.

Answer 9

they are a serious football nation because they play very tough and they are favorised by the psychical advantage

Answer 10

Erm...they played in the world cup...I think that is pretty darn serious.