Sales information for the Portuguese Cup 3rd round and Liga NOS matchday 8

Sporting Clube de Portugal will begin sales of tickets for Famalicão and Tondela on Wednesday the 12th of October as follows:

FAMALICÃO | PORTUGUESE CUP
Tickets are priced at 5€ and are exclusively on sale for Sporting Clube de Portugal members with September 2016 fees paid. Sales will be from 10:00 to 20:00. Kick-off is scheduled for 20:15 on Thursday, in the Famalicão Municipal Stadium.

TONDELA | LIGA NOS
Tickets start from 5€ for members and 22€ for fans. Family Tickets will be available for 21€ and are valid for 3 people (one of which must be a club member). Kick-off is scheduled for 18:15 on Saturday the 22nd of October.

Supporters group looking to raise awareness on the efforts made by the Sporting faithful

The Directivo Ultra XXI supporters group visited the Sporting Academy last week, as part of an initiative with the club's youngster athletes to raise awareness about the importance of the fans and their daily efforts to support the club's teams.

Over 100 CD's were given out to the starlets with all of the songs which normally echo through Alvalade.

Alvalade dominates national call up

Beatriz Conduto, Carolina Monteiro, Inês Macedo and Joana Martins all feature in the latest under-17 female Portuguese squad for two friendlies against the Czech Republic.

The quartet make Alvalade the most represented club representing the nation.

Manchester United legend visits Alvalade

Eric Cantona was a surprise visitor to Estádio José Alvalade this Sunday, accompanied by his brother and children. President Bruno de Carvalho of course didn't miss the opportunity to accompany the Manchester United and France legend.

"5,000 trophies is really impressive!", said Cantona in an interview after visiting the Sporting Museum, before going on to reveal that one of Alvalade's heroes is actually one of his own too: "Yazalde was an excellent player. He played in Marseilles after leaving Sporting. I used to go and watch Marseilles with my dad and brother and Yazalde was one of our heroes."

Cantona also spoke about how Sporting has developed in recent years: "I am a bit like this club: I want my children to have strong personalities. I am letting them develop their own personalities and if they want to play football then they can. I really like to see the big clubs focusing on their young teams. That is where everything starts and where you create your own playing style, like Barcelona, Manchester United and Sporting CP. I understand better now when I see Cristiano Ronaldo, Figo, Futre or Nani playing. They are all the same kind of player."

Tobias Figueiredo, Ricardo Esgaio and Carlos Mané to feature for Portugal in Rio 2016

Rui Jorge announced his squad list for the football competition in the coming Rio 2016 Olympic Games this week. Three Sporting players feature: Ricardo Esgaio, Carlos Mané and Tobias Figueiredo (who is currently with Nacional da Madeira on loan."

Speaking about the squad, Rui Jorge revealed the difficulties faced in putting together a list: "When we picked 35 players, we did so thinking we could put together an ideal squad for the Olympics. With some clubs saying no, we only got 11 of those 35. That has really limited us."

Portugal will play in Group D, along with Argentina, Honduras and Algeria.

Squad list in full:

Goalkeepers: Bruno Varela (V. Setúbal) and Joel Pereira (Manchester United).

Defenders: Edgar Ié (Villarreal), Ricardo Esgaio (Sporting), Tobias Figueiredo (Nacional) and Tiago Ilori (Liverpool).

Midfielders: André Martins (free agent), Bruno Fernandes (Udinese), Fábio Sturgeon (Belenenses), Francisco Ramos (Chaves), Sérgio Oliveira (FC Porto), Tiago Silva (Feirense) and Tomás Podstawski (FC Porto).

Forwards: Carlos Mané (Sporting), Gonçalo Paciência (FC Porto), Nuno Santos (V. Setúbal) and Salvador Agra (Nacional).

Sporting president heads visit to club's second official museum

The Sporting Museum in Leiria hosted a committee from Alvalade this Saturday afternoon. Accompanying the club president for the visit was vice-president Vicente Moura, roller hockey director Gilberto Borges and players Poka, João Pinto and João Diogo, and the the sponsors of the Sporting Race (Corrida Sporting), Hermano Ferreira, Ercília Machado and Rui Silva.

Museum Director Bernardes Dinis did the honours of showing the group around, including a visit to the newly displayed CERS Cup.

The occasion also saw the inauguration of an exhibition on Sporting's win in the athletics European Champions Club Cup.

Alvalade hero helps Real Madrid to 11th European crown

Cristiano Ronaldo has notched up his third Champions League trophy, after scoring Real Madrid's 5th penalty in a shoot out against Atletico Madrid in Milan.

After a draw in regulation time, the deadlock persisted through extra-time. Called up to convert on his side's 5th and what would be decisive penalty, after Juanfran had driven his effort against the post.

Mauricio Hanuch visits Alvalade

Fifteen years have come and gone, but it seems like just yesterday. Mauricio Hanuch made an emotional return to Alvalade this week, to relieve one of the most memorable periods of his career.

"I arrived at Sporting and was champion straight away. I was only 21 when I arrived and I was really young", said the Argentinean in a short interview with Sporting TV.

"It was the best experience of my career. To come to such an important club, with 40,000 people watching me in the stadium, made me really happy", said Hanuch after his visit, going on to speak about Sporting's current stadium: "It is really nice. I played at the last one, which was totally different. Unfortunately I wasn't at the opening of the new stadium."

From the 1999/2000 league winning side, led by Augusto Inácio, Hanuch is full of happy memories: "There were a lot of players with a lot of experience. Acosta, Beto - who was young but very experienced -, André Cruz...It was a mix of young and experienced players. A bit later we had Hugo Viana, Quaresma, Cristiano Ronaldo..."

British magazine on one of Sporting's rising stars

The well-known British football website FourFourTwo has added to João Mário's already soaring fame. Portugal's last two international friendlies further affirmed the Alvalade midfielder's development this season, with a magnificent performance against Belgium seeing him pick out Cristiano Ronaldo for a decisive goal.

Portuguese beat Wales 1-0

The national under-17 squad secured their place in Euro 2016 this week, with a win against Wales on Elite Round Group 5 matchday 2. the Portuguese benefited from Croatia's 2-1 loss to Sweden.

Sporting's Luís Maximiano, Miguel Luís and Thierry Correia all featured on the bench for the encounter.