SL Benfica
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“Our greatness is obvious. We have a cathedral, they have a toilet.”
“We will win 15-0.”
~ Benfica on every game
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, roughly translated to Cocky Disrespectful Lisboans United; and also taken to mean Sporting Lamps Eating Benfica, are, apparently, the only football club consisting of cunts in Portugal, and thus the world. They are thought of to have took out every other club during the Great Ego Inflation of 2002. Rumours of a second club in Portugal persist, though SLB dispute this as merely a poor dining club.
Even when there were other football clubs — and when O Glorioso admitted there were other clubs — Benfica never really paid attention to them, as they kept thinking that the 1962 Benfica side reincarnated (yeah, we hear that every year) will simply steamroller every other team, barely having to turn up.
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[edit] History
[edit] Pre 1960
Not much here, just the usual walkabout that happens when teams that are worse than if nobody turned up show up at big teams. But it does not matter, as nobody cares about any kind of early football.
[edit] The 60's
Benfica attain the services of Salazar, and, for the only real time in their history, start making a big name for themselves. Giants fall, Eusébio scored for fun, and Benfica gave themselves one heck of a fallback. If an overused one.
[edit] The 70's
Benfica fall dramatically, both domestically and in Europe. Everyone not in Portugal completely forgets about them, but Benfiquistas comeback by saying: "We were brilliant back in the 60's. We're the greatest!".
[edit] The 80's
Nothing much happens. Benfica wiin a couple of league titles, but yet again fail to do anything really great in Europe. Nobody in Lisboa thought that that was a bad thing however, with such excerpts as "1962 proves we will be the best for ever.", and "Ah well. There's still no more clubs in the country.".
[edit] The 90's
Benfica start to get even worse. They win absolutely no titles, a couple of cups though. Still nothing on the continent, as well. They also start to notice that their decrepid old cathedral (yeah, right) is starting to crumble, so they get the money-men and league bosses to plan a new one for them for €100,000,000,000, none of which is actually footed by Benfica themselves. This extended period of monotony may have rubbed off on the fans, as they continue to trot out the hugely-cliché "We were the best in the sixties; we're the best!" and even a "Get those old 60's veterans on the pitch!".
[edit] Millenium
The first few years were as drab as the 90's for Benfica, until their new cathedral was built, miraculously at the same time as Portugal hosted some sideshow event that made every man and his dog have a 30,000 seater stadium. Then, in 2004/05, the dry run ended.
There was partying in Luz not seen since 1962 after Benfica won that title. It was if they hadn't won anything since the 60's, although, if you listened to their fans, you'd think they'd hadn't. After that, there was a famous win over Liverpool FC, who lost due to sheer irony of listening to cockier fans. Then, at the end of that season, Gil Vicente peed them off a bit by coming to the wrong match, and subsequently were banished from the money kingdom of the Liga.
[edit] Benfica Legends
- Eusébio - Benfica's all time goalscorer, and one of the best players in the world of all time. Scored 317 times out of 301 games. Nicknamed the "Pantera Negra", black panther. He is a symbol of the club.
- João Vieira Pinto - A brilliant player, played with Benfica for most of his career, 8 years. At Benfica, he won one league and we cups. Played for Portugal 83 times, hitting the back of the net no more than 23 times. One of the best players of time and was part of the Portuguese 'Golden Generation' which won the Under 20 World Cup in 1989 and 1991.
- Rui Costa - Another player of the Portuguese Golden Generation. Rui was a brilliant number 10, one of the best in the world. Also played for Fiorentina and AC Milan, where he won a Champions League. He retired at the end of the 2007/2008 season and is now the director of football for the club.
- Michel Preud'homme - One of the best goalkeepers of all time, won the first Lev Yashin trophy for best goalkeeper in 1994, a goalkeeper who will always be remembered.
[edit] Estádio da Luz
The Cathedral (The concrete bowl), where Benfiquistas come to pray for a time machine to take them back to 1962. There have been two incarnations of this stadium, the half-decent one that finally crumbled in 2002, and the new onw, now complete with such amenities as videos of the old finals, half-decent seats, and, in a jibe to possible cross-Lisboa rivals Sporting, cheap, tacky toilets. However, this is confusing, as Benfica seem to think that Sporting don't exist, but still...
[edit] Supporters of "O Glorioso"
In Portugal, malicious Benfica Special Ops teams go round the country, maintaining a special "Castle of Benfica" in each municipality, making sure that most people are brainwashed so that they support Benfica. The club keeps its record of having the highest number of sócios (paying supporters) via mass brainwashing camps in many countries, such as Spain, England and the United States.
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