Armando Gonçalves TeixeiraOIH, known as Petit, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is the manager of C.S. Marítimo.
Tiago Cardoso MendesOIH, known simply as Tiago, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a midfielder, and is the assistant manager of Spanish club Atlético Madrid.
Priscilla Meirelles de Almeida-Estrada is a Brazilian model, host, actress, environmentalist, and beauty queen. She won the Miss Earth 2004 pageant held in the Philippines. She also won the Miss Globe 2003 pageant. Meirelles has been married to Filipino actor and model John Estrada since March 2011.
Portugal has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 50 times since its debut at the 1964 contest. Since then it has missed five contests. The contest is broadcast in Portugal by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). Portugal won the contest for the first time in 2017 and hosted the 2018 contest in Lisbon.
The Portugal national rugby union team is rated as a performance team in the World Rugby four-band classification system, the second highest. Portugal had their first match in 1935 and now compete in the European Nations Cup and occasionally in the IRB Nations Cup. The team as well as all rugby union in Portugal is administered by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby. Portugal qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2007 where they were grouped in Pool C along with New Zealand, Italy, Romania and Scotland. They are nicknamed Os Lobos, Portuguese for "The Wolves".
Luís Carlos Almeida da CunhaComM, commonly known as Nani, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Orlando City SC in Major League Soccer. He represents Portugal in international football, and has played over 100 times for the senior national team. Although predominantly right-footed, he has been utilised on the left wing on many occasions.
Rui Pedro dos Santos PatrícioComM is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Portugal national team.
Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes, commonly known as Danny, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. Also a winger, he is known for his dribbling and key passes.
Natália Aparecida Guimarães is a Brazilian actress, TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Brasil 2007. She then competed in Miss Universe 2007 where she eventually finished as 1st Runner-Up.
Micaela Patrícia Reis is an Angolan actress, TV Host, model and beauty queen who was a Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2007 and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2007, becoming Miss World Africa. She was the highest placed Miss Angola at both Miss Universe and Miss World before the win of Leila Lopes in Miss Universe 2011.
Szilvia Albuquerque Freire is a model and beauty pageant contestant. She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.
Miss República Portuguesa or formerly known as "Miss Portugal" is a national beauty pageant in Portugal.
Gabriela Markus is a Brazilian engineer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brasil 2012. She represented Brazil in Miss Universe 2012,.
The 2008 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 30th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions. 2008 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was constested by Porto and Sporting CP. Porto participated in their 24th Supertaça final, their third consecutive final since 2006. Porto went into the match as the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira 14-time winners. Sporting CP participated in their eighth Supertaça final, also their second consecutive final. Sporting CP went into the match as the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira six-time winners.
Miss Brazil World is a beauty contest held annually which aims to choose the best candidate to represent their country with honor in the traditional international Miss World contest. The Brazilian representatives began to be sent from the year 1958, with girl from Pernambuco Sônia Maria Campos. Since 2006 who manages the sending of representatives to the international event is the team led by Henrique Fontes. The country has so far only an international crown, obtained with the medicine studant Lúcia Tavares Petterle in 1971.
Miss Queen Portugal is a national beauty pageant in Portugal. It is responsible for selecting the country's representative to Miss Earth, which is an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness.
Patrícia Da Silva is a Swiss-Portuguese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universo Portugal 2014 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2014.
Berth Klarrenn Elouga is a Portuguese beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Queen Portugal 2015 and Portugal's representative in Miss Earth 2015.
Filipa Barroso is a Portuguese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss República Portuguesa 2017. She represented Portugal at the Miss World 2017 and Miss Universe 2018 pageant.
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