Qatar nations cup - Portugal 1 - 0 Algeria

Portugal Team made his Qatar's Nations Cup debut at Al Rayyan Stadium and took a 1-0 win over Algeria.

The only goal of the game was scored by number 25 Zé Nando.

Next Saturday, 7 of December, Portugal will face Egypt for the second game of  the Group stage. The game will be at 7:00pm at Al Rayyan Stadium.

Portuguese Team before the game started

Raul - Coach of the Portuguese Team

Zé Nando - Author of the goal

SPECTACULAR DEBUT FOR FLYBOARD

It was in Doha that took place the first Flyboard World Cup of the history... And WHAT A START!

It was an amazing show, the freestyle competition went perfectly and the french Stephane Prayas ended victorious after an extremely tight race.

October 8th, first day: It was a big day of qualifications where each competitor had 1'30'' to realize a freestyle with moves of his choice. They realized come impressive figures in terms of risk and originality.

October 9th, second day: It is in groups of two that the pilots would compete in the 1/16 finals. After the second qualifying pressure has clearly appeared... 16 pilots were qualified for the 1/8 finals and hierarchy began to settle as some athletes start to pulled out of the game as the french  Stephane Prayas, the American Trey Andrews and the Spanish Lindsay McQueen, very impressive with the dives and the Canadian Brody Wells with his cousin Stephanie, who was the only female in competition and got qualified for the 1/4 finals.

40 degrees, fatigue. pressure and 8 pilots have to give everything to get to the final...

AND THE FINALISTS ARE... PRAYAS, BERGLUND, ANDREWS and SATAPORN

The final was short for the last two since the american and thai were not used to the power of MZR.

The victory was played between BERGLUND and PRAYAS and at the end the french took the last word by offering a demonstration perfectly controlled with high-level figures and specially the only double back flip in the  competition.

I let you some pictures so you can have an overview of the show:

Speaking to myself...

I can't understand why people get so mad about sports sometimes. With soccer for example, that should be about cheering for our team right? So why people get so excited about other teams losses?

 

Sport is about fair-play, friendship, helping each other... and all of that is completely lost in soccer. I see anger, revenge, violence and offenses. Sport is supposed to be healthy, and that is everything but healthy.

 

Let's support our teams, and let the others support theirs. We only depend on ourselves... We only have to win...make goals, and be champions. If we don't, we have to work harder to get there. We don't have to hate and blame the others.

 

That's it... Just me speaking to myself and sharing my thoughts.

 

 

Today was Portugal's day!

Yes!We can say that today was Portugal's day!

My country won two new champions today, João Sousa and Rui Costa.

João Sousa is a 24 year-old professional tennis player, form Guimarães, that today won the Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur. He was the first portuguese winning in ATP World Tour.

João Sousa eliminated Ferrer on the Semi-finals, and played the final against Julien Benneteau (33) with the partials 2-6, 7-5 e 6-4. The young portuguese secured the best ranking place of all time for Portugal: 51.

Congratulations João Sousa!

Images from publico.pt

On cycling, Rui Costa reached the world race title at the cycling world championship in Florence, Italy.

It was a two-man sprint finish between the portuguese and Joaquin Rodriguez.

Rodriguez tried to attack several times during the last lap, but Rui Costa caught him in the finishing sprint to win the most important title of his career.

The 26 year-old portuguese cyclist won three stages in Le Tour de France, one in 2011 and the two other this year and he won the Tour de Suisse also.

Congratulations Rui Costa!

Images from uk.eurosport.yahoo.com

Salut! Quiksilver Pro France 2013 with Photo Gallery

Quiksilver Pro France 2013

Don't you feel the smell of chocolate croissant?

I do, and you know why? Because it is the Quiksilver Pro France 2013, the first stop of the European leg (no. 7 overall).

The two first rounds are already closed and Jordy Smith and Gabriel Medina are the men to talk about.

Jordy Smith ended the first round and drew the best average. Medina, on the second round, at Le Penon in Seignosse, and reached the best score and received the first 10 on the competition with two amazing waves that give him the chance to win the battery without any problem.

Kelly Slater, eleven-time ASP world champion, had hes back against the rope in his 1st Round with Adam Melling and Dane Reynolds. Slater failed excellent scoring opportunities almost during all the round. He finally found a cleaner, longer left with only seconds on the counter to earn a near perfect 9.23.

The swell weakened so the Quiksilver Pro 2013 had to give a 2 days off however, the organization predicts a good-looking swell in the coming days and the competition will be back tomorrow (Monday).

UPCOMING QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE ROUND 3 MATCHUPS:

Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs Alejo Muniz (BRA) 

Heat 2: Kai Otton (AUS) vs Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 

Heat 3: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 

Heat 4: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs Kolohe Andino (USA) 

Heat 5: John John Florence (HAW) vs Sebastien Zietz (HAW) 

Heat 6: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR) 

Heat 7: Kelly Slater (USA) vs Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 

Heat 8: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs Filipe Toledo (BRA) 

Heat 9: Adriano De Souza (BRA) vs Brett Simpson (USA) 

Heat 10: Julian Wilson (AUS) vs Miguel Pupo (BRA)  

Heat 11: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs Gabriel Medina (BRA) 

Heat 12: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs Kieren Perrow (AUS) 

QUIKSILVER PRO FRANCE ROUND 2 RESULTS:

Heat 6: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 16.80 def. C.J Hobgood (USA) 16.17

Heat 7: Michel Bourez (PYF) 14.03 def. Damien Hobgood (USA) 13.50 

Heat 8: Brett Simpson (USA) 15.77 def. Nat Young (USA) 13.33

Heat 9: Kai Otton (AUS) 17.57 def. Adam Melling (AUS) 14.83

Heat 10: John John Florence (HAW) 14.77 def. Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 12.93

Heat 11: Sebastien Zietz (HAW) 17.60 def. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 15.43

Heat 12: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 18.17 def. Travis Logie (ZAF) 17.37

Results and matchups tables from quiksilverlive.com  

If you lost the start of Quiksilver Pro 2013, I'll leave you with some pictures... Salut!

America's Cup 2013 Race 14 cancelled because of the strong winds

We still have to wait to see who's going to win the 2013 America's Cup. 

The Race 14 was cancelled again on Saturday (21st Sept) due to the unfavorable winds in San Francisco Bay, the passage of a weather front broke up the usual summer pattern.

Both teams, Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand, affirmed that they want good winds and a fair course for such an important race.

The race will re-run Today (Sunday 22nd Sept) with Emirates Team New Zealand one race win away from clinching the trophy.

The America's Cup score is now standing at 8-3, the Kiwis can win the America's Cup with just one more victory, on the other site, the Americans must win six successive races to avoid defeat and defend the Cup.

Emirates Team New Zealand

Oracle Team USA