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🟡 Basketball: Benfica opened their FIBA Europe Cup campaign with a 91-81 win away to Denmark's Bakken Bears, pulling clear from 38-36 at half-time to 65-50 after three quarters. Aaron Broussard scored 27 points and Aleksander Dziewa added 18, via A Bola.

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🩺 Alexander Bah and Jakub Kaminski are likely to recover in time for Sunday's league game against Vitória de Guimarães, with Sudakov still a doubt, via A Bola. Barrenechea is out after arthroscopy on his left knee for a medial meniscus tear.

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🟡 Benfica have raised Vangelis Pavlidis's salary and are studying a way to extend his contract, which runs to 2029 with a €100M release clause. A Greek podcast puts his pay at close to €3M net a season, up from about €2.3M, via A Bola.

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🟡 Futsal: eight Benfica players are in Jorge Braz's 15-man Portugal squad to start 2028 World Cup qualifying: André Correia, André Coelho, Afonso, Silvestre, Lúcio Rocha, Pany Varela, Kutchy and Rúben Góis. Denmark at home on 16 October, Romania away on 21 October, via A Bola.

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🟡 Prestianni was an unused substitute in Argentina's 3-0 win over Benin at the Monumental, Messi's farewell, and is the last Benfica player back from international duty, via A Bola. He'd started against Bolivia and Burkina Faso, with a goal and an assist in the second.

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Béla Guttmann and Mário Coluna
Nuremberg, 1962
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🟡 Luís Godinho will referee Benfica v Vitória de Guimarães in round eight of the league, with Pedro Ferreira on VAR, the FPF's Refereeing Council announced on Tuesday, via A Bola. Assistants: Pedro Martins and Gonçalo Freire.

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🟡 Handball: Benfica lost 32-31 away to TTH Holstebro in the EHF European League, after recovering from 10-6 down to reach half-time level at 15-15. No points after two Group F games. Next: HCB Karvina away on 13 October. Via the Portuguese Handball Federation.

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🟡 Daniel Banjaqui, 18, opened the scoring as Portugal's under-21s beat Czechia 2-0 in Leiria: a left-footed finish on 29 minutes after going past three opponents, with Jorge Jesus watching from the stands. Portugal had already qualified for the Euros. Via A Bola and Maisfutebol.

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✅ Trubin started for Ukraine in the 2-1 defeat to Hungary, and Dahl came off the bench in Sweden's 1-0 win over Romania, via SL Benfica.

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Manuel Bento and Eusébio
Praterstadion, Vienna, 1990
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🟡 Fredrik Aursnes played more for Norway in 11 days than he has for Benfica this season: four games and 291 minutes, against five games and 206 minutes for the club, via A Bola. He was right-back twice, left-back once and a midfielder once.

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🟡 Dodi Lukebakio put Belgium ahead against France on 35 minutes, finishing a Romeo Lavia pass, but France came back to win 4-1 in the Nations League. He has two goals and an assist in four games for Belgium, via A Bola and Sport TV.

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🟡 Gianluca Prestianni is among the finalists for the 2026 Golden Boy, the award for the best under-21 player of the year, via Sport TV. The list, released on Monday, also includes Pau Cubarsí and Warren Zaire-Emery.

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🎙 Andreas Schjelderup after Norway's 2-1 defeat to Portugal: "I'll give everything for Benfica and the fans, we hope to win the title this year. We want to make the fans happy this year, that's our big goal." Via A Bola, quoting Sport TV.

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🟡 Leandro Barreiro is suspended after all. Referee Pawel Raczkowski admitted the yellow card in Luxembourg's 1-0 defeat to Estonia was meant for him, not Marvin Martins, so he misses Tuesday's game against Bulgaria and returns to Benfica early. Via Maisfutebol and Sport TV.

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🩺 Heorhii Sudakov has a sprained right ankle, confirmed by Benfica's medical department on reassessment, via A Bola and Sport TV. It isn't considered serious, but he's a doubt for Sunday's league game against Vitória de Guimarães.

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🟡 Benfica are reported to have handed the FPF a refereeing reform plan on 11 September: an autonomous body independent of the FPF, the Liga and the clubs, leaders hired by international tender, an offside detection system and fully professional VAR teams. Via A Bola.

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José Mourinho
2000
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🎙 Fredrik Aursnes, right-back for Norway in the 2-1 defeat to Portugal: "It was a good period for me, because I haven't played much for Benfica since the start of the season." He added: "I'm excited for the rest of the season with Benfica." Via A Bola, quoting Sport TV+.