| Sporting Clube de Portugal
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Sporting CP emblem
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| Team colours
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| Full name
| Sporting Clube de Portugal
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| Nicknames
| Os Leões (The Lions)
Often derided as Lagartos (Lizards)
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| Founded
| 1906
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| Stadium
| Estádio José Alvalade XXI
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| President
| António Dias da Cunha
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| Coach
| José Peseiro
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| League
| SuperLiga
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Sporting Clube de Portugal, often known outside Portugal as Sporting Lisbon, is a sports club that is best known for having one of the best football teams in Portugal. It was established in 1902 as Sport Club de Belas, which became Campo Grande Sporting Club in 1904. It was only in 1906 that it received its current name.
Não se pode dizer que se tenha iniciado muito bem, perdendo no primeiro jogo contra o Cruz Negra, mas na primeira partida contra o eterno rival, também lisboeta, Sport Lisboa, chamado actualmente de Sport Lisboa e Benfica, venceu por 2-1. Em 1907-1908 consagra-se vice-campião regional. Em 1910, no ano em que José Alvalade assumiu a presidência, foi campeão de Ténis, Salto à vara, Lançamento do peso e de Salto em comprimento.
Among Portuguese clubs, Sporting has the best football infrastructure. It boasts a new stadium, Estádio José Alvalade XXI, built for the 2004 European Football Championship, that will host the 2005 UEFA Cup final. Sporting also has a world-class football training facility (Academia Sporting in Alcochete) where Portugal trained during the Euro 2004.
Sporting has developed many top footballers in recent years; some of the most notable are Paulo Futre (Retired), Luis Figo (Real Madrid CF), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United FC) and Aldo Duscher (Deportivo la Coruna) and also others that failed to make an impression oustide Portugal, such as former FC Barcelona players Ricardo Quaresma (who joined FC Porto in 2004) and Simão Sabrosa (joined SL Benfica in 2001). Hugo Viana, the only returning to Sporting, joined on loan from Newcastle United in 2004. The club captured 18 titles, 13 cups and won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1964, their only european win.
Sporting has numerous sections other than football, among them athletics, swimming, handball, table tennis, and Rink hockey.
Current Football Squad (2004/05 season)
This is the full squad for the 2004/2005 season.
| Number
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| Position
| Previous club
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| Goalkeepers
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| 1
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| Nélson Alexandre Gomes Pereira
| GK
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| 12
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| Tiago Alexandre B. Ferreira
| GK
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| 76
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| Ricardo A. M. Soares Pereira
| GK
| Boavista
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| Defenders
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| 4
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| Anderson Correa Polga
| CD
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| 6
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| Hugo Miguel Fernandes Vieira
| CD
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| 15
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| Miguel Angelo Moita Garcia
| CD/RD
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| 21
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| Martinho M. Makuana "Paíto"
| LD
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| 22
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| Roberto Luís G. D. Severo "Beto"
| CD
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| 23
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| Rui Jorge Sousa D. M. Oliveira
| LD
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| 24
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| Mário Sérgio Leal Nogueira
| RD
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| 14
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| Joseph Enakarhire
| CD/RD
| Standard Liège
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| Midfielders / Wingers
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| 37
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| Rogério Fidelis Régis
| RW/CM
| Corinthians
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| 5
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| Carlos Jorge Neto Martins
| DM/CM
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| 8
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| Pedro Alexandre Santos Barbosa
| CM/LW
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| 11
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| Rodrigo Alvaro Tello Valenzuela
| LM/LW
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| 26
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| Fábio Rochemback
| CM
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| 27
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| Custódio Miguel Dias Castro
| DM
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| 45
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| Hugo Miguel Ferreira Viana
| CM
| is on loan from Newcastle United
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| 77
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| Paulo César F. Nascimento Tinga
| CM/DM
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| Forwards
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| 9
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| Marius Constantin Niculae
| CF
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| 10
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| Ricardo Manuel Silva Sá Pinto
| CF
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| 17
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| Roudolphe Douala M'Bela
| RF
| União de Leiria
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| 25
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| Paulo Sérgio Moreira Gonçalves
| RF/CF
| was on loan to Académica
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| 31
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| Liedson da Silva Muniz
| CF
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| 20
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| Danny Miguel Alves Gomes
| RF/CF
| was on loan to Club Sport Marítimo
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| 87
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| Mauricio R. Pinilla Ferreira
| CF
| Celta Vigo
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| Manager
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| José Peseiro
| | Real Madrid as Assistant Manager
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