Stars of Portugal is a special podcast about the national football team. On the way to the 2024 European Cup, Tribuna Expresso presents the biographies of 11 portuguese players and the coach. Every day until the start of the European Championship listen to new episodes to get to know better some of the figures who will go to play with Portugal's shirt. This podcast was originally recorded in Portuguese and translated and narrated in English with the support of artificial intelligence.
Latest episodes
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4 min
Roberto Martínez, the coach who likes consensus more than conflict
Martínez likes to get up early, doesn't drink alcohol and, while playing for Wigan, studied marketing. A good talker, he is regularly invited to comment on football matches on TV c…
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5 min
Cristiano Ronaldo, a living football legend
He never drinks alcohol, is extremely careful with what he eats and is the last to leave training. Who still doesn't know the story of the Madeiran kid from poor origins who landed…
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6 min
Rafael Leão, the RAP singer who is proud to be from a poor neighbourhood
He was born in Almada and grew up in the neighbourhood of Jamaica, in Seixal, where the streets became a privileged place to do what he loves most: play football. But Rafael Leão i…
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5 min
Vitinha, the midfield captain
This season he has been the best player in the Paris Saint-Germain team that won the French championship twice. The club's own coach says so. As a teenager he thought he'd give up…
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4 min
Rúben Dias, the player who never doubted his talent and wants to be a coach in the future
In England, at Manchester City, they say he's the first to arrive and the last to leave the training centre. As a child, in the school playground, he was bossy and liked to organis…
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4 min
Gonçalo Inácio, the left-footed and very shy prodigy
Shy and quiet, he always shied away from the limelight. But the quality of the quiet, left-footed defender soon caught the eye of those who knew about football. And it was with the…
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5 min
Bernardo Silva, the talented player who doesn't like going to the gym
Born in Lisbon to an upper-middle class family, he went to a private school and even enrolled in college. A Benfica fan at heart, he is highly praised by coaches such as Pep Guardi…
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5 min
Bruno Fernandes, the genius who works hard
The coach of the national team calls him “a dream” of a player and much of Portugal’s dream at the European will pass through his boots and refined brain. Discover here more detail…
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4 min
Francisco Conceição, courage, grit and a gourmet left foot
Anyone who came across Francisco Conceição in the early years of his career praises his mentality and his courage to face his opponents and go at them with the ball. At FC Porto, t…
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4 min
Diogo Costa, the goalkeeper who likes to score goals
When he got into soccer as a kid, he didn't want to be between goalposts. He didn't like the idea of having to throw himself into the dirt of the pitch: he liked scoring goals. In…
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4 min
João Cancelo, the resilient player
João Cancelo says he's competitive and doesn't like to lose. He never gives up on the ball and it's no coincidence that he has the word 'resilience' tattooed on his skin. His life…
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4 min
Pepe, the passion for football and for Portugal
He was born in Maceió, Brazil, in 1983, and came to Portugal at the age of 18 to play football. In 2007 he naturalized Portuguese and, if he now enters the field in Euro 2024, he w…
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'Stars of Portugal' is the special podcast of Tribuna Expresso about the national football team. Do not miss, every day, until the start of the European Championship, new episodes…