Porto captain Bruno Alves clinched the Portuguese league title for his team on Sunday, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 win over Nacional.
Alves scored in front of a capacity 50,000 crowd at the Stadium of the Dragon to bring his team its fourth straight title and its sixth in seven years. Porto has been champion of the Portuguese league 24 times.
Porto, which has also reached the Portuguese Cup final, lies six points ahead of Sporting with two games remaining. However, Porto has the better head-to-head results after a draw and a win. Coach Jesualdo Ferreira is the first Portuguese coach to capture three consecutive league titles.
"The team has been fantastic. The players worked very hard for some months when they were put under criticism. Everybody doubted their worth but in the end they all ended up recognising that this FC Porto is the best in recent years," Ferreira said.
Porto, which had beaten Nacional in their past seven league meetings, scored just after the break when Lisandro Lopez nodded back a corner and Alves headed home. After 28 games, Porto has 66 points, while Sporting has 60. Benfica is third on 53, four more than Nacional.
Thursday 27 August 2009
Thursday 13 August 2009
Attention Portuguese People: You're About to Get the Fastest Broadband in the World
Portuguese ISP Zon Multimedia will devlier one gigabit of bandwidth to broadband customers come September. One gigabit! So, if you want a truly fast internet connection in 2009, you're better off moving to the Portuguese Azores than, say, New York City.
This is painful for the vast majority of the world's online population, who live out their lives in a sub-10Mbps ghetto, but doubly so for South Korea, who seemed to have the claim to the first 1Gbps connection all locked up. If it's any consolation, nobody's even claiming they'll be able to hit 1Gbps here.
Of course, there will be disadvantages. 1Gbps connections surely won't come cheap, and seriously, beyond extremely well-seeded torrents, you're going to have trouble finding too many places that are willing to serve you content at over 128 megabytes per second. Go Portugal!
This is painful for the vast majority of the world's online population, who live out their lives in a sub-10Mbps ghetto, but doubly so for South Korea, who seemed to have the claim to the first 1Gbps connection all locked up. If it's any consolation, nobody's even claiming they'll be able to hit 1Gbps here.
Of course, there will be disadvantages. 1Gbps connections surely won't come cheap, and seriously, beyond extremely well-seeded torrents, you're going to have trouble finding too many places that are willing to serve you content at over 128 megabytes per second. Go Portugal!
Friday 7 August 2009
Portugal well covered for Internet, but few use it
Portuguese citizens are amongst the European populations that least use the Internet despite the country being one of the best equipped and offers connectivity that is above the European average, an EC study revealed this week.
The 2009 report on digital competition that was commissioned by the European Committee showed that the European digital sector had made “strong progress” since 2005, with 56 percent of Europeans regularly using the Internet in 2008.
In Portugal, however, only 38 percent of the population regularly uses the Internet (at least once a week) which places the country 22nd out of 27 State Members. At the same time only 29 percent of Portuguese use the Internet every day, in comparison to the 43 percent European average.
The report shows that “Portugal is one of the countries with the lowest amount of regular and frequent Internet users and has a high percentage of the population that has never used the Internet (54 percent)”.
It concluded that despite these figures high-speed Internet is easily available to 95 percent of the population, which is above the European average of 92.7 percent and therefore places Portugal 12th out of 27 EU countries in terms of Internet accessibility.
Therefore the EC has concluded that Portugal holds a “relatively strong position” within the society of information and commercial applications (e-business and e-commerce) and is one of the EU’s countries that lead the way in terms of possibilities that the population is offered regarding dialogue with public administration (e-government).
Out of the various age groups European youngsters, aged between 16 and 24, are the most active Internet users; 73 percent regularly use the services to create and share information on-line.
The 2009 report on digital competition that was commissioned by the European Committee showed that the European digital sector had made “strong progress” since 2005, with 56 percent of Europeans regularly using the Internet in 2008.
In Portugal, however, only 38 percent of the population regularly uses the Internet (at least once a week) which places the country 22nd out of 27 State Members. At the same time only 29 percent of Portuguese use the Internet every day, in comparison to the 43 percent European average.
The report shows that “Portugal is one of the countries with the lowest amount of regular and frequent Internet users and has a high percentage of the population that has never used the Internet (54 percent)”.
It concluded that despite these figures high-speed Internet is easily available to 95 percent of the population, which is above the European average of 92.7 percent and therefore places Portugal 12th out of 27 EU countries in terms of Internet accessibility.
Therefore the EC has concluded that Portugal holds a “relatively strong position” within the society of information and commercial applications (e-business and e-commerce) and is one of the EU’s countries that lead the way in terms of possibilities that the population is offered regarding dialogue with public administration (e-government).
Out of the various age groups European youngsters, aged between 16 and 24, are the most active Internet users; 73 percent regularly use the services to create and share information on-line.
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