Portuguese basketball 2008/09

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Porto signs Christian Burns from AZS Koszalin of poland he is 2,03 m.
Antonio Pires returns to barreirense

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Benfica sign Diogo Carreira from Belenenses they now have tree good guards Miguel Minhava, Antonio Tavares and Diogo Carreira.
Porto signs a 23 year old forward center called john oates Boston College Eagles.Its his first pro experience.

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CAB signed veteran G Carlos Seixas from Lusitânia.

He asked to be released due to personal problems (had to stay in mainland Portugal, CAB is in Madeira island), he's now a free agent.


Eurobasket 2009 qualification, 1st game:
Portugal 70 Estonia 79

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Guimarães signed American F Mario Boggan (25, 2.01m) from Anaheim Arsenal (NBDL).

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Académica signed G Karlton Mims from Benfica.

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Eurobasket 2009 qualification

2nd game:
FYROM 85 Portugal 48

The NT's coach Moncho López declarations:

"It's hard to explain what happened... I can't find an explanation. We had a bad start and then we weren't able able to control the score difference which rapidly became huge."
"At halftime we were losing by 20 and started the second half with the aim of shortening the difference slowly... but we weren't able to do so. The problem was the start of the game."

I really think he needs to find out what happened

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Ovarense signed C Ajmal Basit (30, 2.06m) from Jena.

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João Soares goes to Partiza Belgrade from Ovarense very promising player for Portugal.Only 18 year old.

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João Soares goes to Partiza Belgrade from Ovarense very promising player for Portugal.Only 18 year old.

Have you seen his serbianised name? Žoao Soareš
Hope he gets some playing time there, although it will be difficult.

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Coach of the Portugal national team

Who is the coach of the Portugal national team? Ramon Lopez(see fibaeurope.com) or Moncho Lopez(see eurobasket.com)

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Who is the coach of the Portugal national team? Ramon Lopez(see fibaeurope.com) or Moncho Lopez(see eurobasket.com)

Ramon López Suárez also known as Moncho López

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Thank you. I now understand

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Guimarães signed two more Americans: F Willie Taylor (29, 1.93m) and C Donte Minter (24, 2.06m).

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Vagos signed F Dan Coleman (23, 2.06m).
Barreirense signed F Amílcar Gomes (33, 2.00m) from Seixal and C Calvin Brown (25, 2.06m) from Akropol.

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Eurobasket 2009 qualification

3rd game:
Latvia 79 Portugal 43

3 games and 3 losses