European League. Lech Poznan will play against Belenenses Lizon. Club of “Bethlehem,” for which he played himself Jose Mourinho – Sport.pl

Although Belenenses Lisbon inferior in terms of the number of trophies and merit two more successful football clubs of Lisbon, which is Benfica and Sporting, is the story of a team founded in the port district of Santa Maria de Belém it is no less interesting. “These are one of the Belém” (in Polish means Bethlehem), the targets in 1919. In the nearly century-old history of four reached for a national championship, even though it was in distant times (1927, 1929, 1933, 1946), three times reached for it after the Portuguese Cup (1942, 1960, 1989). The biggest success, however, is Belenenses winning the Intertoto Cup in 1975. It should be noted that not when the finals were played this competition, but only the group stage. The Lisbon club then defeated FC Spartak Trnava FC Amsterdam and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub. Interestingly, the same year the group won Intertoto Cup Zaglebie Sosnowiec.

In recent years Belenenses Lisbon does not play a special role in the Portuguese Cup. Only two seasons ago, the team from the outskirts of Lisbon managed to return to the top division. Last season was very successful for them. They took sixth place in the league and reached the quarter-finals of the national cup. The club have a craving for more, so in July hired as coach of legendary Sporting Lisbon and the Portuguese national team, Ricardo Sá Pinto. Interestingly, the coach, who in 2000 as a player led Portugal to the semi-finals of the European Championships, it was three years ago released from Sporting after losing to … Videoton Szekesfehervar.

Under the leadership of former coach krewkim temperament ( at a time when a player has been suspended for a year for beating a coach) they succeeded for the first time in history to qualify for the group stage of the Europa League, which is a significant achievement for the club. Portuguese eliminated IFK Gothenburg (2: 1, 0: 0) in the third round of qualifying, and the Austrian SC Rheindorf Altach (1: 0, 0: 0) in the fourth qualifying round.

Belenenses Lisbon has a color similar to color Lech Poznan. The Lisboners home matches played in blue shirts, white shorts and blue getrach. Few people know that in the eighties in the colors Belenense 16 matches in the second division Portuguese Jose Mourinho played alone. This is the Lisbon club Lech Poznan has also passed Ivan Djurdjević, now coach of reserve team “Kolejorz”. He played there include former representative of the Polish Dariusz Adamczuk. Today Belenense does not belong to tycoons. The composition of this team formed one hundred percent Portuguese. Among the best are former Benfica striker Miguel Rosa, midfielder Ruben Pinto and former FC Porto goalkeeper Hugo Ventura.