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Thursday 8 January 2009

Carlsberg Cup: Vitória Sport Clube 0-2 Sport Lisboa e Benfica


Positive night for SLB team, one away victory at the Victoria’s Futebol Clube stadium, Dom Afonso Henriques, brought some tranquillity for the benfica’s family.

A good game to observe on a cold night, in a city where Portugal was “born”, two teams gave their best to make a pleasant spectacle.

The early goal scored by the Greek, Katsouranis that gave the best response to an Aimar’s corner kick, made Vitória de Guimarães “run” after other result.

The all benfica’s team demonstrated good capacities, although in particular Moretto had few work to do, so had few chances to demonstrate, if he deserves to be the man of the nets. Balboa was once again with many problems to finally be able to exhibit his qualities.

Carlos Martins jumped from the bench and made the difference scoring the second goal and putting an end to Cajuda’s team pretensions.



Carlos Jorge Neto Martins (1982/04/29)

Carlos Martins was born in Gavinhos de Cima, near Oliveira do Hospital.

The midfield player, very young started showing his qualities and with eleven years old he jumped from Grupo Desportivo Tourizense to Sporting Clube Portugal, The familiar impact was so big that he returned to Oliviera but now to play for the Futebol Clube Oliveira do Hospital.

In 1995 the doors of Alvalade were opened again and there he payed for the young teams achieving also the Portuguese National Team. In the “Lions house” he grew up and became a man, learning with some of the best Portuguese Formation men all about football.

The majority of games Carlos Martins played were representing the Lisbon rival Sporting Clube de Portugal. Since the year 2000 he had only for three times played in other Clubs than Sporting. These teams were Sporting Clube Campomaiorense, Associação Académica de Coimbra and before coming to Sport Lisboa e Benfica he represented the Spanish Real Club Recreativo de Huelva.

Carlos Martins is without any doubt one of the best Portuguese Liga players acting on the midfield. Unfortunately some injuries and some physical problems are causing some difficulties on his best performances.

The Benfica team will gain accuracy on the ball distribution, being more astute and also more dangerous with a player like Carlos in good shape.

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