This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page When the door to the stucco-fronted building opens, a member going in or heading out, you’ll smell garlic, a waft of grilling octopus and huge slabs of prime beef. You’ll hear the tinkle of glasses and never-ending arguments in Portuguese and English. And if you’re waved inside Clube Desportivo Faialense, you’ll see right away what it was that blocked your view from the sidewalk. Trophies. Several shelves and six decades worth. “This club was founded in soccer,” said Francisco Correia, pulling up a chair. He’s the president of Clube Desportivo Faialense and a place of honor, at the head of a table below a wall of team photos spanning five decades, is reserved for him. Suddenly we’re back in the summer of 1971. “There was a bunch of guys who used to kick the ball around for fun, so they decided to start a team,” said the club’s unofficial historian, 76-year-old Gabriel Duarte, who remembers those long-ago days. “That’s how it all started.” The team’s first name was Faialense Sport Club and it was born on a bumpy field behind a school a few blocks from where we sit sipping Sagres Pilsner. The club’s first home was a former meat market, a place, as Duarte recalls, where “ the players could get together for food and a beer after the game.” The club, in those early days, was made up only of guys from Faial – a 66 square-mile island in the Azores where a volcanic eruption in 1957 sent folks scrambling for safety. Nearly 4000 of them landed in Massachusetts, many in East Cambridge, adding to the previous surges of Portuguese immigration to the Bay State that began back when whaling ships still ruled the waves. In 1984, the club scraped together the money to buy the building where we sit now, in the early days of 2025. In the intervening 40 or so years, the value of the property has skyrocketed. The Cambridge that existed in 1984 is a long-faded memory. “It used to be all Portuguese here,” said the club’s vice president, Luis Correia [brother of the club’s president, Francisco] about a neighborhood where the constant thud of construction is the soundtrack of times changing. “It was Portuguese families from the Islands [Azores] out from Inman Square all the way through East Cambridge.” CD Faialense is a piece of the past, but one with an eye on the future too. The group of young men gathered at the other end of the table is evidence of that. View this post on Instagram A post shared by CD Faialense (@cdfaialense) “In the beginning all the guys were from Faial, from that tiny Island,” said Luis Correia, showing off the club’s first trophy, won in 1973 and tarnished with age. It’s then that his nephew, Paul Correia, who runs the 2024 first-team as player-coach, chimes in with pride: “Now we have players from ten different countries in the team – never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be a part of something like this.” Paul, 34, grew up around the club, going to holiday parties at the big function hall next door and playing foosball down in the basement. In those years, as the immigrants who helped build the neighborhood of East Cambridge moved away to the suburbs, soccer began to take a back seat. “The teams up north [in and around Lowell, MA] were paying players 300 dollars a game, under the table, cash,” said Duarte about the years the club spent in the so-called LASA League – the powerful LUSO-American Soccer Association that dominated New England Soccer in the 1980s and 90s. “We couldn’t compete with that.” “We have this place here and we can help build it back to what it was,” said Paul, who works in finance, running the team on the side. He’s the guiding light of a new generation of CD Faialense, and he makes sure everyone gets a few of the clams that arrive at the table in steaming mounds, drowning in white wine sauce and parsley. “We want it to be like it used to be.” The CD Faialense team of today is more than a nostalgic labor of love for Paul Correia. With a pipeline of players from the best local college programs, the likes of UNH, UMass Lowell, URI and Harvard, they’re building a reputation as the cream of the crop of amateur men’s league soccer in Eastern Massachusetts. A first-place finish in the Bay State Soccer League (BSSL) Division One in 2023 and 2024, by huge margins of 11 and 10 points respectively, is a good indication of what they’re up to. It’s a stratospheric bar they’ve set. “We want to be the amateur team that breaks through,” Paul said of the side’s ambitions as they look ahead to the Tournament Proper – and a date with Maine-based USL League One pros Portland Hearts of Pine – after winning four Open Division Qualifying Round games in the Fall. “Every player on our roster right now is a former Division-One college player – a lot of top guys fresh out of that competitive environment.” Lucas Rezende, like Paul and a core group of the team's old guard, played his college ball at Merrimack University. He’s the starting goalkeeper and handles much of the organizing end of things. That includes keeping tabs on players for weekend games and whittling a working roster from a squad of 40. Rezende, 28 and recently married, uses the word “revolution” to describe the change in the team when a group of current young players began to coalesce around the clubhouse on Cambridge Street. View this post on Instagram A post shared by CD Faialense (@cdfaialense) “It all started with Damian,” Rezende said, between bites of a huge steak smothered in garlic and topped with a fried egg. He gestures to Damian Attidore, who, at 25, isn’t far from his playing days at UMass Lowell – America East league mates of the reigning NCAA Champions the University of Vermont Catamounts. “It took me a year to get him in,” laughed Razende, shaking his fork at Attidore, who teaches English and coaches the freshman team at nearby Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. “He was playing hard-to-get and wouldn’t respond to my texts!” “I was burnt out on playing,” smiled the 25-year-old Attidore, an outstanding winger and now one of the first names on the team sheet who “shows up to everything” according to Razende. “I had a few buddies on the team and they kept bugging me and eventually they dragged me along.” It’s something Paul Correia is justifiably proud of. You can see it on his face. Assembling a new generation of players, all taking the field under the banner of CD Faialense. Filing back to the club for a beer and a bite after the game. It’s a blending of old and new that’s rare. “This is something you need time to build – it’s a kind of heritage that you can’t buy,” added Felipe Guimaraes from the far end of the table. He’s 31 now and has been with the team since 2013. He was there through the lean years when, playing under the name PAC Lawrence and Merrimack Valley United, the side bounced up and down the lower reaches of the BSSL. “Now we have that pipeline and players start talking to their friends and bringing them in,” said Guimaraes, a civil engineer who works on fire-escape technology and commutes in from New Hampshire. “Before you know it we’ve got something really good.” More than just mortar and brick, there’s an essence here at the club. There’s something magical about the building – the barroom and the people who’ve made it what it is. The big challenge for the team, outlined by Crema, Italy native Mirko Nufi, 28, who passes on the steak in favor of an excellent grilled octopus, is “getting a field in the city – or across the river in Boston – it’s impossible.” “The dream is to have a field nearby,” said Paul Correia, hoping to move on, someday, from their current home field 15 miles up the North Shore. “That way things can be like they used to be – you play the game and all the guys come back here to hang out. When the young guys get here and spend some time, have some food, they always fall in love with the place.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by CD Faialense (@cdfaialense) “It’s a family thing and these young guys are unique – really talented players and they’re still into it and playing just because they love it,” added Francisco looking at his son and the batch of talented and committed players he’s helped assemble A few old-timers are still at the bar when the night raps up with flan and strong coffee – maybe a cognac or two There’s one last look at the jumble of trophies in the front window on the way out Paul Correia points to a dark blue shirt in a frame right there in the mix next to the old fading photos Someone has the idea to make a throwback shirt for next season A tribute to the ones up on the wall with the diagonal sash worn by a team that played for this club before any of them were born pushing the door open to a Cambridge that’s always changing Jonah Fontela is editor-in-chief of usopencup.com. 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DTA Engenharia was awarded two contracts after a public tender procedure: 1 for the design and construction of a new quay for the local fishing industry in Luís Correia and second to deepen the access channel to this new quay Dutch Dredging was hired to work under the second contract and the company mobilized trailing suction hopper dredger Lesse at the end of September 2023 the 3.5km long canal was less than 2 meters deep in some places and had to be deepened to -7m This required moving more than half a million cubic meters of material Some of the dredged material was reused for the construction of the new quay In addition to the limited space for maneuvering the strong current and the simultaneous work on the new quay also posed challenges “The Lesse has taken on these challenges and good maneuvering properties and experienced crew and project team has completed the work within the set period and budget,” Dutch Dredging said in the announcement TSHD Lesse left for her next project in Brazil leaving behind a satisfied customer who festively opened the deepened canal and the new quay shortly afterwards Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox The Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course will host the Portugal Masters for the 15th consecutive year this week since its inaugural staging in 2007 Golf Business News spoke to Dom Pedro Golf Chief Executive Officer about how important the European Tour event is to the resort and what players can expect from the course in 2021 the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course has hosted the Portugal Masters for 15 years now How special does it feel for the resort to have hosted the event every year since its inauguration into the European Tour Whenever you host a European Tour event it is always a special feeling but this year is even more special given that it is 15 years since we first started staging the tournament We are proud that the European Tour continues to choose us as their preferred venue in the Algarve and it is our responsibility as hosts to prepare the course in the best possible way for the players to enjoy In the 15 years that we have been hosting the event there has been many memorable moments and we hope that this year’s tournament will be no different Our greenkeeping team has been working hard in the build-up to the event to help set up the course in such a way that we can showcase the best of golf in the Algarve to everyone watching The resort started hosting the event in 2007 What was the process behind Dom Pedro being chosen to put on the tournament After the Victoria Course was officially opened in 2004 the aim was to make sure the course should host a major golf event in the near future Having been designed by seven-time Major champion and golf legend Arnold Palmer such an event would be instrumental to raising awareness and creating recognition for both the championship course and golf in the Algarve region the then owners were able to secure the World Cup of Golf in 2005 Following the successful staging of the event with the support of Turismo de Portugal (the National Tourism Board) and the Algarve Tourism Board there was an idea to approach the European Tour to propose an annual tournament in the Algarve The proposal was taken onboard by the European Tour and a couple of years later would be set up and hosted in Vilamoura at the Victoria Golf Course the course has hosted the event for 15 years in a row Over those 15 years the Portugal Masters has had some high-profile winners of the tournament Do you have a favourite edition of the tournament or stand-out moment The Portugal Masters has created a number of memorable moments that will live long in our memory The standout moment for me would be when Oli Fisher became the first player on the European Tour to shoot a round of 59 in 2018 This was an incredible moment for all who were at the event and one that isn’t likely to be beaten at the Portugal Masters for many years to come Another memory that springs to mind would be in 2015 when Andy Sullivan produced a scintillating performance to win the tournament by a record nine shots over fellow Englishman Chris Wood This is followed closely by Padraig Harrington’s 2nd shot to the 18th hole on the Sunday in 2016 to make birdie and win the Portugal Masters I can’t wait to see what this year’s event has in store for us I’m sure there will be plenty more special moments created Course preparation plays an important role in the build-up to the event Are you able to provide us with an insight into how the greenkeeping team prepares the courses Our main ambition when hosting the event each year is to always make sure the course reaches its optimum condition in the couple of weeks leading up to the start of the tournament they are able to carefully manage the process to allow the course to remain at this point until the first tee shot is struck on the Thursday Preparations normally start months in advance with the course maintenance team working hard to make sure every little detail is accounted for The greenkeeping team has been altering the pace of the greens and fairways so that they will be firm and fast allowing players to really attack the course and get value for money with their shots throughout the week Our aim is to provide both players and spectators with an entertaining spectacle during the event showcasing the best of the Dom Pedro Hotels & Golf experience and Vilamoura as one of the best ranked tourism destinations in the Algarve One of the unique aspects of the resort is that it compromises of five golf courses in Vilamoura Can you explain how your team manages to maintain all five to such a good condition especially when it is hosting a European Tour event as well Having to manage five championship courses at the same time is a unique challenge and one that our team at Dom Pedro Hotels & Golf Collection thrives on we not only have to make sure the Victoria Course is being conditioned to European Tour standards but also that the other courses are ready to welcome a high volume of golfers each day The team values the conditioning on each and every one of the courses at the resort and does its upmost to make sure the experience for golfers always remains the same throughout the year makes the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course such a good one to host an event of this size And what are some of the hallmark design traits implemented by Arnold Palmer The Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course was built with the intention of hosting large scale events such as the European Tour the course showcases generous and undulating greens with large fairways and numerous water hazards that are always in action throughout the round Arnold Palmer and his team created the course with both professional and amateur golfers in mind They wanted all golfers to have a unique golfing experience with generous grassed areas and bunkers positioned away from the middle of the fairways What are the key holes on the course that players must watch out for The front nine has a couple of difficult holes but it is the action on the back nine that will make or break a player’s tournament a short par-4 where golfers can attempt to drive the green and set up an eagle opportunity the signature holes on the course are the 17th and 18th The 17th provides an eagle opportunity for the longer hitters This will be especially true when the pin is either towards the front of the green or towards the right-hand side as the water will be most in play there.  where players must decide whether to play strategically or risk bringing the water into play with an attempt at birdie on the final shot into the green I’m confident that this year’s tournament will once again be decided on the final day on either of these two holes The event is usually a big moment for both Dom Pedro and the Algarve each year How important is this year’s event to the resort and the Algarve given what everyone has experienced over the last 18 months with the pandemic This year’s event is extremely important as the Portuguese golf industry continues to recover from the offset of the pandemic The last 18 months has seen many golf courses in Portugal closed for several months to prevent the spread of the virus as well as fewer golfers travelling from aboard due to the travel restrictions in place was hit quite hard by the pandemic and the resort has had to adapt to the new situation to create a safe environment for tourists With the world returning to some sort of normalcy the Portugal Masters is key to showcasing the best of Dom Pedro and the Algarve ahead of 2022 golf rounds and revenue will begin to reach figures close to where they were in 2019 Our team has been working hard to present the courses and facilities at Dom Pedro Hotels & Golf Collection in a splendid manner and demonstrate why we are renowned as being one of the best resorts in the Algarve to attract more golfers after the tournament has concluded Dom Pedro is renowned as being one of the favourite venues for players on the European Tour What about the resort and the region do you think they enjoy the most The Algarve is one of the most popular golfing destinations in the world Many of the European Tour’s best players love visiting the region not only because it sees up to 330 days of sunshine a year but because of the quality of the golf courses that are on offer we are often able to accommodate many of the families who accompany the players whilst they are playing in the tournament Dom Pedro provides them with a safe environment to enjoy all of the facilities and the warm climate The standard of the courses at Dom Pedro Golf is also a key reason for why golfers love visiting the region Each and every course maintains a good level of consistency across the year and the Victoria Golf Course in particular presents players on the European Tour with a healthy balance allowing them to play aggressively and make low scores Following the news of the theft of over £2 million 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Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. has signed a definitive agreement for $30 million Series-A funding and obtained the long-term rights to the hydrogen port terminal facilities in Luis Correia marking a milestone on its journey to build a large hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives production plant in the country said the franchise’s purpose is to produce renewable hydrogen in the most cost-competitive locations with an initial focus on conditions in the North-East of Brazil adding that it will distribute its green fuels to off-takers in industry and transport with a mission to help decarbonize the hard-to-abate sectors of the economy Green Energy Park Piaui in Brazil is GEP’s first hydrogen production plant targeting 10.8 GW of electrolyzer capacity when fully built “Working closely with off-takers around the world enables a novel approach to design and operate a vertically integrated hydrogen supply chain Green Energy Park is partnering with a wide range of energy users offering a cost-competitive solution to their decarbonization needs,” GEP noted stated: “The world is at risk of falling behind its climate goals Despite the many efforts and programs to arrest climate change To achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 we need to install 6,000 gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity around the world we are on a singular mission: To produce the lowest-cost renewable hydrogen at the gigawatts scale we combine cutting-edge hydrogen production technologies with innovative process engineering solutions at one of the most advantageous sites for renewable hydrogen production in the world Piaui is set to become our ground zero of the hydrogen revolution we are incredibly proud of our strong partnership with the State of Piaui on this critical mission.” commented: “The State of Piaui offers some of best conditions in the world for producing green hydrogen are fully committed to unlocking the great potential of our unique natural resource endowment to the benefit of our citizens “Green Energy Park provides our State with a tremendous opportunity for a bright future The world-scale hydrogen project will create thousands of high-quality jobs in our state and will accelerate a green industrialization of our economy We want to attract international businesses to build a world-scale hydrogen cluster by creating a favorable investment environment with strong support by the State of Piaui we are implementing an innovative approach for a green industrialization of our country for others to follow in Brazil and beyond.” “We are incredibly proud that Green Energy Park has chosen Piaui to implement the most advanced hydrogen production facility in the world The government will fully support the undertaking and is well prepared to help this global flagship project to succeed.” Click here to read more about hydrogen in Brazil The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering GustoMSC part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business is recognized for providing advanced design & engineering consultancy for mobile offshore units and reliable equipment and technical knowledge into realistic & innovative ideas The performance of new and existing jack-ups FALL RIVER — New co-owners will be joining the team at the Towne House on Purchase Street and former restaurant owner and manager Jenny Correia will move on to concentrate on her jewelry company according to the establishment’s attorney “Jenny no longer works for any of the companies that fall under the Towne House brand,” said Frank “She’s going on to work for her jewelry company and they are going to redouble their efforts at the restaurant business.”  According to Jenny Correia's website for her company she is maintaining the Towne House building at 37 Purchase St of Fall River will co-own the Purchase Street venue with Luis Bettencourt and his wife who also own the BarCa Restaurant on Columbia Street.  Bettencourt is Jenny Correia’s stepfather The grand opening: Towne House restaurant brings food hall vibe to Fall River “Luis and Rosa are experienced restaurant owners and Paulo and Ariane are experienced business people,” said Frank “It looks like a really good fit for the four of them.”  According to the Massachusetts Secretary of State online corporation database Filogenio and De Carvalho own the Fall River-based Better Homes Construction and Oakville Investments Corporation.  7 takeaways from his appeal: Were Jasiel Correia's claims of success just 'puffery'? Correia was home for the holidays to work at Towne House Correia is expected to report to a New Hampshire federal prison on April 22 to serve a six-year sentence for government corruption after he was elected the city’s youngest mayor in 2015 and for defrauding investors in his company SnoOwl and tax evasion before he became mayor.  Towne House, with its multi-venue restaurants bars and a private cigar-smoking club under one roof, became known outside of Fall River when Correia successfully convinced U.S District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock to delay turning himself in to the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin 3 to help out his in-laws at Towne House during the holiday season.  Woodlock has granted Correia seven delays to report to prison some due to the COVID pandemic and others related to his appeal of his federal conviction Woodlock denied Correia’s request to stay out of prison until his appeal is resolved Running out of options: Judge denies Jasiel Correia's bid to stay free pending appeal. But his fight isn't over. He has the ability to appeal that denial to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.  Frank said Correia was also no longer an employee at the Purchase Street restaurant.  he was never an officer or director of the business,” said Frank Correia and his wife were married last August after his May federal conviction and before his September sentencing The couple held their reception a the high-end restaurant complex Transferring licenses and corporation principals He’s working on transferring the liquor licenses that are currently under Jenny Correia’s name with the city’s Board of Licensing and the state’s incorporation documents.  Board of Licensing confirmed that Jenny Correia is still listed as the manager for the Towne House and the private 100 Club Bar the business’s second-floor cigar bar.  A check of the corporation database shows Correia is still listed as the manager of the Towne House corporate name Looking for justice: The public is eager to punish Jasiel Correia. Law experts and a victim have another view. The database also lists Jenny Correia as a clerk and director of the 100 Club Bar’s corporate name the nonprofit Portuguese American Society.  Also listed as a director of the Portuguese American Society is Correia’s mother Frank said Correia’s mother’s name will also be removed as a principal in the nonprofit corporation.  In the articles of incorporation for the Portuguese American Society the nonprofit's mission is to encourage cultural civic and social activities “to preserve and strengthen the traditional Portuguese-American heritage of its members” as well as soliciting gifts and contributions of money for various reasons including dispersing scholarships to youth in Fall River the high-end private club would not be subject to real estate property taxes according to the Board of Assessor's office it could be responsible to pay for personal property taxes they have no listing in their database for 100 Club Bar Jo C. Goode may be reached at jgoode@heraldnews.com Support local journalism and subscribe to The Herald News today not least because Maria’s 37th project was a mammoth undertaking “Unlike everything else we’ve done so far,” he says jam-packed with stories and hurdles that we fought to overcome.” “It would be a much more exclusive and different bike,” says Luis “Our proposal had as its epicenter the Le Mans MK1 model—a motorcycle whose history is associated with classic racing and which already had plenty of commercial value.” the bike had already taken part in classic tournaments with its previous owner engine … everything had been altered or modified completely defacing the basis of the original Le Mans.” As soon as the bike was on the bench and stripped down Maria ran into their first problem: the frame number didn’t match the papers This wouldn’t have been a problem for a track-only bike but the new owner wanted to ride it on the street and getting it registered in France would be a nightmare After an extensive search and with a little luck the crew found an original frame with French papers So the motor went off to an expert: Michael Behrendt at HMB Guzzi in Röttenbach and changed the clutch to a competition-spec setup restored by Maria and ultrasonically cleaned The Guzzi demanded an exhaust to match its engine spec so the team collaborated with a supplier to design a two-into-one-into-two stainless steel system The front forks were upgraded with a whole whack of new parts sprung to match the bike and owner’s weight but in the end the drum brake that the bike came with suited the overall style better Maria couldn’t leave it stock—so they upgraded it with a custom lever system to sharpen its response The front brake was upgraded with floating discs a custom-made Brembo kit from Stein-Dinse Guzzi “The problem was that Mr. Libanore would only sell something to those who would visit and meet him in person,” says Luis, “and convince him to sell his pieces, while paying for them in cash. Mr. Libanore is still alive and is currently 90 years old. It is worth visiting his workshop just to see his work He is regarded as a legend for this sort of work.” The tank was then lined inside and painted and the tail section was capped off with a simple hit of brown quilted leather Maria Motorcycles | Facebook | Instagram | Images by Manuel Portugal GET THE WORLD'S BEST CUSTOMS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX COPYRIGHT © 2008-document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) | COLE PUBLISHING | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED which is carrying out an ambitious project to produce hydrogen and ammonia in the Parnaiba economic zone (Piaui State) in Brazil has just secured financing and long-term rights to export hydrogen from the port of Luis Correia Founded in 2023 and headed by Bart Biebuyck (formerly of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership) Green Energy Park is investing to produce green hydrogen and its derivatives (including decarbonated ammonia) The company is currently working on two projects one in Croatia (on the island of Krk near the Adriatic Sea) and the other in Brazil The plant will be built on a 310-hectare site to produce hydrogen and ammonia from renewable energy sources Green Energy Park will deliver hydrogen to customers in industry and mobility In connection to this project, the company has just raised funds totalling $30 million. The funds were provided by strategic partners, customers and financial institutions. At the same time, Green Energy Park has negotiated long-term rights to export hydrogen from the brand new Luis Correia port The ambition of the start-up is to produce low-cost hydrogen on a gigawatt scale “Piaui is set to become our ground zero of the hydrogen revolution,” stated Bart Biebuyck “The State of Piaui offers some of the best conditions in the world for producing green hydrogen and indeed the world” commented Victor Hugo Almeida Read the press release Do you want to learn more about Brazil and hydrogen? You can read our latest article on the country here Article written by Laurent Meillaud and translated by Mariem Ben Tili info@hydrogentoday.info Home Newsletters Calendar Hydrogen in the world Key players in hydrogen Our fact sheets about hydrogen © Copyright – Communicaweb 2025 Legal noticies – Management of personal data  That’s because it was built with one purpose in mind: to get dirty “One is because I can fall as many times has I want without being worried about damaging something The other is because I’ve always wanted a bike with this look because it was made with old parts that I had in stock.” Luis has already put his scrambler Triumph through its paces and reports that it’s agile and aggressive He’s christened it the Red Baron—“because it’s a war machine!” Maria Motorcycles website | Facebook | Instagram But this 1980-model BMW R100 RS was in need of complete salvation when it landed on Maria Motorcycles‘ workbench Before they could turn it into the handsome machine you see here they had to undo some nasty ‘custom’ work “We decided to divide the project into two stages: Stage One was to recover the most out of the original parts Stage Two was to create a classic style that fit our client’s ideal.” “One crazy thing we did was to polish the wheels,” says Luis “We’ve never seen a BMW with the wheels polished Their client’s love for old boxers stopped Maria from swapping out the tank for something smaller But the rear-end of the bike has been reworked—with a custom-made subframe and a hand-covered sheepskin leather seat Mounting the rear fender using traditional stays rather than the subframe was a deliberate move to keep the bike looking as classic as possible The tires are Diamond-patterned numbers from Coker—“Almost mandatory for this kind of bike,” Luis jokes New front discs and Hel lines give the brakes a little more bite while a pair of aftermarket mufflers improve the soundtrack Every fastener has been polished or swapped out for a stainless steel replacement Maria designed and laser cut various brass details to mount throughout the bike This once-hacked airhead is now the sort of machine we’d pick for an elegant Sunday ride Not that it’s a slouch—Luis tells us the mods have made for a lighter Luis Correia and his crew at Maria Motorcycles weren’t keen to cut into their client’s 1992 Africa Twin either But it wasn’t just down to reverence for the adventure sports icon Plus, the recently acquired Africa Twin was in a pretty terrible condition. So the Portuguese crew stripped it down without too much remorse, and set about transforming it. “The idea was to make an old Dakar dirt bike,” says Luis “the engine looks like it’s from a classic bike from the 70s.” Just about all the Africa Twin’s bodywork is gone now but modified it extensively—removing the original fairing mounts Maria also built a pair of aluminum fenders and a set of crash bars—to protect the tank and motor when things get awkward in the dirt The taillight is tucked away underneath the upper fender and there are discreet LED turn signals all round The license plate’s mounted on a hand-made bracket behind the wheel they also built a set of stainless steel exhaust headers to the exact same design as the OEM numbers Every last inch of the Africa Twin’s been cleaned up And any part that needed it was either powder coated Maria have called the Africa Twin ‘Kalahari,’ as a tribute to one of the continent’s driest deserts Which is exactly where we’d love to take it Maria Motorcycles website | Facebook | Instagram So it’s not surprising that the Maria guys hoarded a low mileage 1980 XS650 a client came along and convinced them to customize it for him The donor was mechanically in tiptop shape—so the crew didn’t need to crack the engine open so they cleaned it up and repainted the covers black wheels and any other parts that needed a refresh The frame’s been shortened and looped at the rear and the tail light and plate relocated to the left side the team switched the bars out for a laid-back set from LSL classic Posh grips and new levers with a Magura master brake cylinder Then there’s the exhaust; a high-riding twin muffler system “We know that the muffler position is something controversial,” says Luis But of course we tested it and it’s pretty far from the rider We’ve always known Maria Motorcycles to be masters of good taste to the point that the Firestone Deluxe Champion tires fit right in And as we’ve come to expect from this crew the paint job is sublime; a simple green with white accents so this one brought back some old memories from the beginning.” This custom Honda CB750 is a testament to the Seven-Fifty’s enduring appeal. It comes from Maria Motorcycles in Portugal and it’s dripping with the laid-back coastal style and vivid colors that the workshop is known for you’ll spot an assortment of modern upgrades too Maria started with an extremely tidy 1993-model CB750 F2 donor the engine needed nothing more than a quick once-over The only significant engine work happened on the outside where Maria cleaned and polished the covers for a better-than-new finish Under the hood, Maria ripped out all of the CB’s wiring and started over. A fresh wiring loom now runs off Motogadget’s ubiquitous Mo.unit controller which helps to keep things clean and simple A set of Öhlins piggyback shocks sit out back set up specifically for the bike’s owner The 17” laced wheels are from Jonich in Italy and feature polished alloy rims A CNC-machined fuel cap was retrofitted too and new side covers were shaped from aluminum The paint job even extends to the headlight; an up-cycled Harley-Davidson part the cockpit is dressed with new handlebars and an assortment of Motogadget bits that include the speedo The ignition has been relocated to the side of the bike and tiny Motogadget LED turn signals sit sneakily at both ends “Our client also had a rebuilt engine and a few other parts,” reports Luis Correia of Maria “But there was no overall concept for the bike Maria decided to build a bike that felt smaller and sat lower than the original with the wheels dominating the overall look more “Not the thin and shy wheels that came with it originally!” The front suspension was rebuilt and shortened a little with stubby Bitubo shocks dropping the rear end to match The tank was reprofiled to suit the lower stance and the airbox was modified to clean up the gap behind the engine Simple controls and instruments add to the clean look Head over to the new Maria Riding Company website for more stylish builds, including the ‘Italian Sniper’ Ducati 750SS we reported on a few months ago. 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ProductionBrazilian state buys stake in 10.8GW green hydrogen project — 'it will make things easier' says developerThe Green Energy Park in Piauí aims to export most of its volumes to Europe The bike in question is “Silly Kid”: a 2006 Bonnie that belongs to a good friend of the workshop “It was one of our first projects,” says Maria’s Luis Correia “A trial bike for many things we wanted to experiment with.” Last time the Bonnie left Maria’s workshop Maria had also fitted new handlebars and controls and trimmed the switchgear down—moving the ignition and start button to the left side of the bike in the process “He wanted it to be as simple as possible in terms of equipment,” explains Luis “with a front end similar to a competition dirt bike.” So Maria traded the headlight for a discreet LED strip and cleaned up the front end still further To improve handling the front suspension was shortened and stiffened—matched up to an existing set of Bitubo rear shocks The tires are Metzeler Tourances: dual-sport items with a road bias with accents picked up by new Posh grips and a bright red front sprocket cover The process comes with challenges: Most thumpers built in the ’80s and ’90s celebrated function over form but that means builders have to contend with clumsy bodywork and awkward lines Correia and his crew decided to fuse the vibe of old small-capacity city bikes with the go-anywhere attitude of a dual-sport Their first hurdle was the XT600’s asymmetrical they managed to fabricate a new subframe and reroute the exhaust headers—adding a Spark muffler in the process Maria also lowered the forks and installed a Hagon spring kit The front has dropped in size from 21” to 18”—giving the XT a little more visual balance Most of the XT600’s finishes are dark and subtle but Maria couldn’t resist adding a splash of color “Most people see it as a dirty and aggressive bike,” says Luis “but the lollipop color of the tank suggests the lovely curves of bikes like Vespas.” As for the dash of orange on the headlight: that was added just for kicks Custom XJRs of both the new and old variety are now streaming onto the interwebs. This is the latest one to hit our desks—an imposing ’99-spec machine from the Portuguese maestros at Maria Motorcycles the new owner wanted something fresh—so he left it up to Maria to conceive a new design Maria liked the shape of the XJR’s stock fuel tank maintaining the same profile in a slimmer package that would further emphasis the size of the engine Under the seat unit is a custom-made electronics tray a pair of Lithium-ion batteries and a Motogadget m-Unit controller (around which the bike’s been rewired) There are plenty of nice off-the-shelf parts too The wheels are 17-inch Kineo tubeless units wrapped in grippy Continental ContiRoad Attack rubber A Renthal chain and sprockets transmit the power to the back wheel and the front forks have been upgraded with heavier oil and Öhlins springs the paint is exemplary: slick and well thought out since we’ve removed many of the original parts,” Luis says “It runs really smoothly at low speeds—but when you turn the throttle it gets really scary!” Click here to see Canada's most comprehensive listing of projects in conceptual and planning stages Developer Stanton Renaissance is poised to construct a mixed-use condo development in downtown Hamilton that incorporates elements of the historic James Street Baptist Church the church was designed by architect Joseph Connolly in the Gothic Revival style An estimated 20,000 square feet of the stone façade will be preserved "We put on our thinking caps and came up with a way to incorporate the most important heritage elements associated with the church," says Drew Hauser a principal in Hamilton’s McCallum Sather Architects Inc the 30-storey project will incorporate a public galleria and retail space in addition to the condo units The front façade and bell tower are being preserved More than 1,200 square feet of stained glass from the demolished part of the church is being re-used in the building The project is being undertaken by a team that includes structural engineers Quinn Dressel Associates and mechanical engineers R While a start is contingent upon a certain level of units being sold Stanton Renaissance hopes to break ground early next year was in poor condition when it was acquired by Stanton Renaissance a Toronto-based firm that is interested in adaptive re-use of heritage buildings the congregation would hear stones falling inside the walls," said Hauser whose firm has worked previously with the developer a decision was made to demolish parts of the church after a review by Quinn Dressel indicated that large sections were not structurally sound The site is located on James Street South in the heart of downtown near City Hall and about 200 metres from the Hamilton GO station a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals said the church property sat on the market "for a while" after being put up for sale "We were working with Stanton Renaissance on a project in Toronto "I mentioned to (president) Louie Santaguida that the property was available "Louie loves older buildings and adaptively re-using them seeing how they can be re-purposed and brought back into the community some structural issues associated with the building." care will have to be taken to ensure that the existing structure is not undermined "That will be an ongoing issue." 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As the stars of The European Tour descend on the Victoria Course for the 10th staging of the Portugal Masters Tuesday night saw five past Portugal Masters Champions join guests and dignitaries for a Cocktail Reception to pay tribute to the late great Mr Palmer; designer of the Victoria Clube de Golfe which has hosted The European Tour event since 2007 was joined by past champions Steve Webster (2007) Richard Green (2010) and Tom Lewis (2011) to pay tribute to Mr Palmer who had written a congratulatory letter to Victoria Clube de Golfe in September paid tribute to the impact Mr Palmer had not only on golf in the Algarve It is with great pleasure I stand before you on the eve of what is set to be a week to remember in Vilamoura’s rich golf history joined by some past Champions of this coveted European Tour title Please join me in showing your appreciation for; defending Champion This year’s event marks a significant milestone in this Championships’ history; not only is this the 10th anniversary of The Portugal Masters but the 50th anniversary of Golf in the Algarve We stand here today ready to embark on a new era for golf in Vilamoura A united partnership has been forged between Dom Pedro Hotel Group and myself as we embark on a new venture to enhance what is without doubt one of Europe’s most popular golf destinations The strategy will set about to inject new energy into Vilamoura’s five headline golf courses amplifying the Algarve’s golf tourism economy The partnership will unlock new investment into the golf product enhancing the cherished course that will carry us into a new era of prosperity and excellence in the region One of the true greats left us just a few weeks ago A man who left an indelible mark on this great game not only shaping the professional game as we know it but inspiring generations to take up this wonderful sport It could not be more fitting for us that the 10th anniversary of the Portugal Masters is played around one of Arnold Palmer’s Masterpieces; The Victoria Course The King’s legacy will live long with us here in Vilamoura and we shall never forget how he has inspired greatness in each and every one of us each and every one of the players this week as well as golfers and sports fans around the world This evening is about coming together and celebrating the collective efforts of so many to make The Portugal Masters so successful and enjoy the company of those who have inspired us We thank you for taking the time to join us tonight and we would like to wish everyone a successful week.” Oceânico Golf www.oceanicogolf.com You have reached ESPN's UK edition. Stay on current site or go to US version Cristiano Ronaldo said in court on Monday that he had complete trust in his advisers adding that they "are the best" and have told him he is not guilty of tax fraud according to a transcript that has appeared in the Spanish media The Real Madrid star is also reported to have said his complex tax structure was designed not by his agent Jorge Mendes or anybody at Gestifute but by English experts recommended by his former club Manchester United Ronaldo appeared for 90 minutes in front of judge Monica Gomez Ferrer in Madrid later issuing a statement via Gestifute in which he strongly denied the case brought by prosecutors at Spain's tax agency who maintain that he used a web of companies in Ireland and the British Virgin Islands to avoid paying at least €14.7 million in taxes due on image rights income The Portugal captain told the judge he does not personally know much about tax laws but has no problem paying well to get the best advice, according to his testimony, which was leaked to Spanish news agency EFE "I do not understand much of this -- I have only six years in school and the only thing I know is to play football well," Ronaldo reportedly said Spain's Hacienda tax authority has also investigated the returns of a number of other Gestifute clients including current United manager Jose Mourinho Mendes himself gave evidence to judge Gomez Ferrer regarding Falcao's affairs and the agent and his nephew Luis Correia are expected to be called again in the Ronaldo case Cristiano Ronaldo appeared in court on Monday. Sonia Canada/Getty ImagesRonaldo reportedly told the judge that Mendes and Correia were not responsible for his tax structure which dated from his time at Old Trafford and had been designed by a lawyer recommended by United "Jorge's speciality is getting the best contracts for players," he said Polaris is a company managed by Luis Correia which looks after my publicity and sponsorships When I arrived in England they told me how things worked there Chris told me that this was what all footballers do but off the pitch I just want to be like everyone else." Ronaldo currently earns an estimated $93m a year, according to Forbes with approximately half coming from image rights deals with his many sponsors Ronaldo said he was aware he earned a lot of money but always told his advisers to make sure he paid his taxes in full so he did not understand why he was now suspected of fraud Forbes magazine publishes everything that I earn I know I earn good money but they all [his advisers] know that I want to pay [taxes due] they told me that I have not done anything wrong that I did everything with the best intentions The truth is I do not know what I am doing here." Ronaldo also explained the sale of his personal image rights up to 2020 to Singaporean businessman and Valencia owner Peter Lim in June 2015 "In 2014-15 I ceded my rights to Peter Lim," he said southern elevation overlooks a natural slope image © luis ferreira alves encompassing robinson factory is maintained and rehabilitated image © luis ferreira alves solid ochre wall borders a new street, blue volume contains support spaces image © luis ferreira alves entry to the school image © luis ferreira alves view from lobby image © luis ferreira alves corridor to classrooms image © luis ferreira alves classroom image © luis ferreira alves classroom with views to the south image © luis ferreira alves (left) lounge (right) classrooms border courtyards images © luis ferreira alves offices border private courtyards for daylight image © luis ferreira alves kitchen within the detached blue building image © luis ferreira alves bathrooms image © luis ferreira alves site plan A. cork museum B. firefighter museum C. parking D. art museum and artists residence E. s. francisco convent F. auditorium G. auditorium B H. virtual reality center I. catering and tourism school J. students square K. cultural associations L. residential area happening now! partnering with antonio citterio, AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function, but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style, context, and personal expression. Mendes has made enormous money from football as his client players have joined United Chelsea and Real Madrid; he is reported to have received €3.6m of the €9m United paid for Bébé earned handsomely when Real Madrid signed Ronaldo from United for £81m in 2009 describing itself as "an annual meeting for all [football's] main market operators" declared Mendes "agent of the year" for 2010 accompanied by a video featuring high praise from Mourinho and Ronaldo Mendes's own Gestifute agency humbly interpreted the award on its website as: "Jorge Mendes proclaimed world's best businessman" Yet the football public still knows painfully little about how the game's multimillion‑pound transfer business is done or how so-called "super-agents" actually earn their money After United's extraordinary signing of Bébé his former agent complained he had been cut off by the player before Mendes moved in and earned prodigiously from the €9m (£7.5m) deal the Guardian has discovered there is a lawsuit against Mendes proceeding at glacial pace through the concrete-pillared district court in Porto brought by Formation the English football agency formerly run by Paul Stretford It exposes an illuminating, bitterly disputed account of Mendes's rise to the big time, with Formation claiming Mendes reneged on a partnership with it once his client, Mourinho, moved to Chelsea as manager The case also lays bare what supporters are never told of how football really works including exactly how much Mendes was paid when three of his clients – Carvalho Paulo Ferreira and Tiago Mendes – were signed by Mourinho for Chelsea in July 2004 Chelsea's contracts both with the players and with Mendes show that Chelsea paid Mendes for acting both for the players and the club but presented €2.45m not just as payment for completing the transfers including ensuring his millionaire players turned up for training on time All of that was permitted at the time by the Football Association allows agents to act for both clubs and players in the same transfer The origins of the falling out between Formation and Mendes lie in Lisbon, in March 2002. There Stretford was introduced to Luis Correia, Mendes's nephew and a Gestifute director, by Carlos Freitas, a Sporting Lisbon director who suggested they work together to move Portuguese players to England's money-soaked Premier League with close relationships at Sporting and Porto had signed up most of Portugal's fine generation of players many of whom would come to prominence when Mourinho's Porto won the 2004 Champions League Formation argues that it agreed with Mendes to promote and represent Gestifute's Portuguese players in England to share fees equally when moves were concluded and that in May 2003 the two agencies signed a written agreement to that effect Formation claims it shared its agents' fees exactly 50-50 in June 2002 when Sporting's Hugo Viana signed for Newcastle – Mendes's first major international deal – then when Nuno Capucho joined Rangers in June 2003 share part of the fee he received from United when Ronaldo signed from Sporting Lisbon as a miraculously gifted 18-year-old in August 2003 after Mourinho joined Chelsea the following summer and immediately signed Carvalho The relationship between the two agencies broke down for half the fees Mendes was paid in those Chelsea deals the former Manchester City and Stoke City midfielder who was the main Formation agent promoting Gestifute players in England "I gave two and a half years of my life to Mendes," Henry Mendes's Gestifute company in Porto claimed it received "nada" – nothing – when Carvalho Formation's Lisbon-based lawyers reacted by obtaining which show that Chelsea paid Gestifute €2.9m in total when the players signed Formation accused Gestifute in court documents of having "lied barefacedly and shamelessly" for arguing it was paid nothing Gestifute responded that its defence was correct because the €2.9m had been paid to Gestifute International Limited a company registered in Ireland where corporate tax rates are much lower right up until the player signed for United For all that Mendes is now dubbed a "super-agent" involved with players across Europe and South America often part-owning their "economic rights" it is generally acknowledged that Hugo Viana a slight 19-year -old who did not flourish at Newcastle was Mendes's first major international football transfer Formation says it did most of the work; Henry had flown for his first meeting with Mendes in May 2002 to Switzerland where Portugal's Under-21 team were playing Italy in the European Championships then young European footballer of the year who had very close links with Newcastle – Kenneth Shepherd went with Henry to watch Viana in the next game were meeting Mendes and Sporting directors in Lisbon to finalise Newcastle's signing of Viana "Mendes was big in Portugal," says Henry we'd got one of his players a move to a major club and made him a lot of money." and although no written partnership contract with Gestifute was yet in place Formation agreed to share the fee exactly equally Stretford and Henry continued to promote Gestifute players to English clubs whom they took to meet Wenger at Arsenal's training ground in November 2002 The two agencies signed the formal partnership agreement The first deal concluded after that was not Ronaldo but the winger Nuno Capucho When United gazumped Arsenal for the signing of Ronaldo – paying £12.24m far more than the €6m Arsenal were discussing – Mendes handled negotiations directly with Sir Alex Ferguson and Kenyon Mendes told Stretford his fee for the Ronaldo deal was €400,000 and offered to pay Formation £80,000 in full settlement Formation claims Stretford accepted because he wanted to preserve a profitable relationship so it was deeply aggrieved when United published in their 2004 accounts that the payment to agents on the Ronaldo deal had been £1.129m Formation says it pressed on with the partnership until after Porto beat Monaco 3-0 in the Champions League final on 26 May 2004 Pedro Mendes and Deco – all Mendes clients Chelsea then paid Porto £13.2m to sign Ferreira and did not report his fees to Formation or pay it anything Mendes reacted by saying Formation had now itself breached their contract so he would regard the partnership as ended Formation sued Gestifute for the half of the fees it claimed were due obtained via court order in Portugal and which the Guardian has seen reveal that the club paid Gestifute €2.9m in agents' fees and shine a revelatory light into how football works permitted to act for both a club and a player in transfer deals Although that is an apparent breach of Fifa rules requiring agents to act with no conflicts of interest Subsequently the FA introduced a rule requiring players but after an outcry by agents they are now allowed to act for both again as long as the players state they are happy with the arrangement Ferreira and Tiago were all for three years and set out the players' salaries – Carvalho starting on £2.18m a year "basic" plus bonuses and benefits including all housing costs; Ferreira £1.55m a year basic Each included an agent's fee of €150,000 paid by the club to Gestifute SA Chelsea had separate agreements to pay much more the three contracts include that lower fee to Gestifute for "acting on the player's behalf" which also appeared in each player's own contract Then there are bigger payments: €1,050,000 for the Carvalho deal €350,000 in Tiago's – €2.45m in total – for three duties ostensibly nothing to do with acting on the transfer itself The first was to pay Mendes "to facilitate the renegotiation of the player's contract with the club" was to "look after the wellbeing of the player … the agent will do his best to ensure that the player … timeously [sic] attends training and matches." The third was for Mendes to "act as a consultant … to secure any image rights attached to the player for the club" the FA has confirmed that Chelsea paid the whole €2.9m through it as English football's "transfer clearing house" Sources close to the arrangement have told the Guardian this was common practice at the time with clubs describing such duties in contracts indicating the fees were not paid to the agent for working on behalf of the club in the transfer declined to comment when asked why they had framed Mendes's agents' fees as payment for such services The disclosure of these contracts led Formation's lawyers to accuse Gestifute of having "lied barefacedly and shamelessly" when it claimed it had received "no commission whatsoever" for the Chelsea deals Gestifute's lawyers responded by saying that statement was true because all payments were to Gestifute International Contacted by the Guardian with a series of questions about the case a spokesman for Gestifute said: "This is a normal commercial dispute and we are very confident that the Court will decide on our favour." Formation would not discuss the issues saying: "We are making no comment as there is currently a legal dispute with Gestifute waiting to be heard in Portugal." The garland of "super-agent" is accorded to just one or two of football's fixers informed by very little insight into what they actually do For Jorge Mendes the case crawling through the court in Porto reveals a great deal about how he – and football at the highest level – conducts their business Simon Kuper Facebook executives urged Cristiano Ronaldo’s management team to start a Facebook page for him you have to be there,” the Facebook people said “He has the potential to get to 10 million followers.” which manages the Portuguese footballer’s image rights recalls how Polaris replied: “We don’t believe you in 2009 Ronaldo quietly debuted on Facebook he used social media to announce the birth of his son by an unnamed mother Last month Ronaldo became the world’s first athlete to hit 100 million Facebook followers The only human with more is the singer Shakira many big football clubs weren’t even on Twitter or Facebook group managing director of Manchester United boasts that his club generates “more engagement” on Facebook than any celebrity from any field or any other sports team on earth Big clubs and players aren’t doing this out of vanity They have long known they have legions of fans worldwide United claims to have 659 million supporters But football’s problem was that it never had a way of reaching those people China’s Weibo and other platforms are enabling clubs and players to compile computer databases of their fans The next step: to turn the fans’ love into money at last This is the new quest of the football industry Last year Real Madrid announced revenues of €521m the highest for any sports club in history the Finnish financial analyst Matias Möttölä calculated that in terms of revenue the club would have been only the 120th largest company in Finland (Real’s latest annual revenues were €604m.) And few clubs make profits Footballers are famous and big clubs are global brands But football has always struggled with what economists call appropriability: clubs cannot make money out of (cannot appropriate) more than a tiny share of fans’ love for football Imagine a Manchester United fan in Kuala Lumpur called Abdul let alone to United’s stadium Old Trafford scours the internet for United news and watches their games on TV in a local restaurant And yet the club’s total income from Abdul is zero Of the 1.3 billion-plus people on Facebook a Facebook executive who handles sports and entertainment told last month’s International Football Arena (IFA) conference on football and social media in Berlin (Disclosure: I was a paid moderator there.) Social media have become an essential element of sports fandom Many young people in particular watch games while bantering with other fans on their mobile phones – the so-called “second screen” sport accounted for just 1.3 per cent of TV programming but 41 per cent of TV-related tweets Global interest in football dwarfs other sports The 2010 World Cup generated more searches than the 2012 summer Olympics This summer’s World Cup was surely the biggest media event in history Here are some findings from a “Google Trends” report on the tournament: he racked up four times more searches than his compatriot Pope Francis © Getty● After Argentina’s Angel Di Maria scored against Switzerland he racked up four times more global Google searches than his compatriot Pope Francis; ● After Belgium’s Kevin de Bruyne scored against the US “USA searches for the match were higher than searches for anything else Big European clubs are finally winning fans in China the US and Indonesia – countries that between them account for 45 per cent of humanity Social media is a way to reach these people Arnold told this month’s Dublin Web Summit United joined Facebook only in 2010 (it now has 61.5 million followers) United probably gets more media coverage than any British company If its Facebook page were hacked – as has happened to some corporations – it would be global news Footballers are constantly getting into trouble for things they say online Rio Ferdinand of Queens Park Rangers was recently suspended by the English Football Association after a spat on Twitter in which he referred to a heckler’s mum with the obscene slang term “sket” the FA charged 60 participants in football for inappropriate comments on social media “We are concerned about Twitter and things going out of the club that should not go out It is important to keep that under control.” It is important to keep that under control It’s partly for fear of scandal that Ronaldo doesn’t put up his own posts on Facebook so he will typically send his handlers a message and let them find the right words and post it Sometimes he sends them a photo from a restaurant dinner but he doesn’t “share” nearly as much as image rights manager Polaris Sports would like Football’s caution irritates Facebook’s Miller Most young people are used to wild spontaneous exchanges on social media and often haven’t even heard of the newspaper that breaks a scandal clubs now issue their players with endless rules of what not to say online But football has belatedly come to see social media as a business opportunity A year ago Borussia Dortmund tweeted a photograph of its coach The focus of the picture was the pen with which he signed Quite by chance – it had presumably been the nearest thing to hand – it was a Stabilo pen A club that understands social media is worth more to sponsors soon after United plunged into social media the club signed a deal for shirt sponsorship with Chevrolet for £47m a year But the endgame for clubs like United goes way beyond sponsorship United can make contact with fans like Abdul the club could become a de facto database company Then its value would lie chiefly in its knowledge of the identities and consumption habits of its supporters Companies in many sectors are pursuing much the same goal They offer services for free; in return the user gives them his or her identity But football clubs’ databases could be particularly valuable big clubs have more social-media followers than regular companies: United have more than either Nike or McDonald’s clubs – unlike most corporations – command love and loyalty “A fan is the most emotional thing in the world He will do everything,” Kaiser told the IFA conference If you can reach the fan through his second screen while he’s watching a game you catch him at a moment of maximum emotion Soon a club’s database will allow it to tailor offers to each individual fan but it can also help much bigger companies sell to him if a club could give an automobile company a list of twenty-something German male fans who earn more than €50,000 and need a new car Kaiser says: “The intelligent club in the future will say It’s mine.” The company will have to fork out A database of 25 million fans could be worth billions of euros big clubs have begun employing unprecedented numbers of sophisticated executives You now hear football officials bandying about the acronym “CRM” (customer-relationship management) chief revenue officer of Juventus and a veteran of the tobacco company Philip Morris says: “We want to apply a proper CRM strategy The ability to know our supporters and also influence them is fundamental for us to generate higher revenues.” Juve has found that fans are happy to give the club their information A club’s database will allow it to tailor offers to each individual fan Clubs need to find out exactly who each fan is It’s not enough to know that “Abdul in KL” follows you on Twitter An official of the Portuguese club Benfica asked the IFA conference: “How can I make money from the people who will never engage with me directly but are on our Facebook page founder of the online data security firm WISeKey Fans who download it will have to register Kaiser is sceptical that the clubs – few of which are cutting-edge businesses – will win the battle to build serious identity databases a senior executive of the midsized German club Wolfsburg listened rapt to the visions of the future at the IFA conference all the social-media systems are black boxes The core business of the club is to play football.” Some clubs are also understandably sceptical of the social-media hype they remember the rise and fall first of the pay-per-view hype the video has had nearly 1 million YouTube views Big clubs are hiring teams of video film-makers “This is quite a big cultural change in the organisation,” notes Calvo of Juventus Most of Juve’s new employees come not from other football clubs but from other sectors “A football club like Bayern Munich is a media production company,” Stefan Mennerich Bayern’s social-media team travel with the players and stay in the same hotels so they can give fans a club-approved inside view “We are a mobile-first media organisation,” says Arnold “We operate in 18 languages – a huge volume of work for us in terms of being culturally appropriate.” One side effect of all this work: clubs now compete with traditional media Today you can go straight to Arsenal’s Facebook page where the club posts a video of the line-up before each match and an exclusive player interview after it No outside journalist can get this kind of access many clubs and players have built larger audiences than traditional media Ronaldo has 31.3 million Twitter followers more than CNN’s main account and The New York Times combined Many players now cut out journalists by speaking straight to fans Rio Ferdinand complained that journalists “paint that picture and you see a caricature of you evolve had been “the biggest thing in my armoury” in changing his image In 2012 he posted four “teaser” tweets about knitting The fifth tweet: a picture of himself opening a Snickers bar Ferdinand was reported to the Advertising Standards Authority for covert advertising greedy shilling of this sort can hurt the image of players and clubs Fans don’t like it when their beloved clubs and players behave like rapaciously commercial privacy-invading offshoots of the US National Security Agency Football needs to tread carefully in social media “They want to be respected for their love of the club.” Fans have been complaining for 20 years that football has become too commercialised not many of them seem to have been put off the Scottish draper who founded the English Football League in 1888 was probably the first person to describe the sport as “big business” The phrase has since become one of football’s clichés The Technology Leadership Forum [TLF] is calling for recent graduates and college students studying Information Technology to apply for its 2021 cohort “The Technology Leadership Forum continue to support Bermuda’s future technologists and are calling for recent graduates or college students studying Information Technology to apply for the 2021 cohort “The TLF are reaching out to the community to inform those pursuing a technology degree to apply through the TLF website before the March 31st deadline Cameron Tyler [2020] Matthew Correia [2018] Malachi Butterfield [2020] Eli Smith [2020] Chris Philips [2013] and Brittany Easton [2013] “Successful candidates will undergo an intensive twelve-week paid summer programme combining classroom learning team projects and work experience at participating companies This combination of theoretical learning and on-the-job practice is to ensure that the interns acquire a rich experience in the information communications technology [ICT] industry Interns will develop their networking skills and develop relationships in the ICT community which will guide them in their career pathways “The TLF was founded fourteen years ago as a response to the growing need for qualified Bermudian talent in the ICT field It aims to encourage Bermuda’s information technology [IT] students to become exposed to the many varied career paths which they can pursue across many industries “The Technology Leadership Forum has achieved many outstanding successes since its formation that have laid the foundation for numerous ICT professionals that were beginning their careers provide a meaningful professional networking and learning platform for ICT enthusiasts.” “The TLF have over 90 Alumni who successfully completed the program and actively work in the technology industry today Our alumni are provided continued mentorship and training opportunities to enable them to become Bermuda’s ICT Leaders “Companies and business leaders interested in supporting the growing need for the next IT leaders of Bermuda are encouraged to become sponsors As a TLF sponsor your organization receives access to IT Bermudian talent and assists with guiding and mentoring TLF alumni through various professional development and management training opportunities offered by local experts “The TLF take this opportunity to thank its valued sponsors and partners who have tangibly demonstrated their support for the initiative over the past year “For more information on the Technology Leadership Forum’s Internship Programme, Sponsorship and to apply, please visit TLF.bm or email info@tlf.bm.” Category: All, technology While two young people were representing Bermuda in London for Commonwealth Day other young people from across the Island gathered in the conference room of the XLGroup on Bermudiana Road to debate share ideas and consider challenges and solutions confronting Commonwealth countries including Bermuda.Organised and moderated by the officers of Youth Parliament Bermuda the day-long Commonwealth Day Youth Summit explored the theme ‘connecting cultures’ and in particular what challenges may be preventing cultures from connecting in various Commonwealth nations and what solutions there might be to overcoming these challenges.“They improvised; they worked together; they sought information and they created presentations,” explained Youth Parliament Premier Ryan Robinson Perinchief.Divided into groups of eight or nine the representatives had to consider one of several issues hindering cultural connections between Commonwealth countries and the reaching of the eight Millennium Development Goals to reduce global poverty.In the morning Saltus Grammar School and Somersfield Academy research and worked on the format of their presentations “This House believes persons in this country should be made by law to vote” and then made their presentations to the judges who were Miss Bermuda Jana-lynn Outerbridge former Youth Parliament Premier Samuel Bean and Craytona Smith Deemed the best was the presentation by the team examining political issues dealing with illegal immigration in the Commonwealth: Luis Correia and Hamish McNiven (MSA) Tariq Brown and Cameron Holdipp (Impact) and Michaela Ratteray (Saltus).Prizes were awarded to students based on their participation in their groups and their presentation skills The top eight presenters of the day were also recognised and awarded prizes.“It was a good turnout,” Ryan observed and it was amazing how the participants improvised.”Pleased with how well-planned and well-thought-out the day was he noted that they hope to hold a similar conference next year Which of the Throne Speech promises is the Government best equipped to deliver on View Results Former Dundalk goalkeeper Gary Rogers has been hired as a full-time Irish scout by GestiFute the company founded and headed by super agent Jorge Mendes Rogers has confirmed to Independent.ie that he started a new role earlier this month which will involve identifying talent on these shores on behalf of the group that is a major player in the European football market GestiFute's international headquarters are in Dublin with a small number of staff based here involved in the business and finance operations of a global force that has a star-studded roster of clients headed by Cristiano Ronaldo Ireland international Matt Doherty signed up with Mendes' group ahead of his transfer from Wolves to Jose Mourinho's Spurs last summer But the recruitment of Rogers is a new departure aimed at sourcing promising local youngsters at the beginning of their journey who is also the CEO of Polaris Sports – the commercial wing of the multi-million euro operation Mendes did sign off on the deal after Rogers conducted a number of Zoom interviews with various staff members following an initial approach from Irish-based Andy Quinn "It's a great opportunity," said Rogers (39) who hung up his gloves in December after over 20 years in the League of Ireland "I will be looking at football at all levels At the minute the only show in town is going to be the League of Ireland when that's up and running and then hopefully the underage football is back soon They (GestiFute) realise there's good players here because they have the likes of Matt on board "You look at young players like Aaron Connolly and others around his age having an impact My job is about profiling and identifying the players and with the connections GestiFute have it's then about getting them in the right place to deliver their potential." Brexit has changed the landscape of Irish underage football with players now unable to sign for UK clubs until they are 18 the common travel area agreement means Irish players do not require special permits to move to the UK once they turn 18 whereas European counterparts now need to go through a qualification process But 16-year-old Irish players can still legally move to other EU countries with Shamrock Rovers starlet Kevin Zefi set to pave the way when he eventually joins Inter Milan "With Irish players not needing work permits to go to the UK "And the fact they are part of the EU and can travel anywhere in the EU to play their football there's massive opportunities and this company has a massive network you are throwing the net much further than that You are trying to get players to the best environment for their talent and ability to prosper It could be Spain or Portugal or the Netherlands The UK is where a lot of players from Ireland tend to go; it may not necessarily be the best route "I'll be reporting to Luis in Portugal; and I've contacts now with three or four of the others where I will be sharing my reports with them and comparing them with other guys of the same ilk in Portugal or Spain in Poland and see how the players I'm looking at compare with players in similar positions and age groups he felt my background in the league and work with the players union (he's a former PFA Ireland chair) made me an interesting fit and he floated it with the other board members It's a privilege to be thought of in that regard by such an impressive company." Rogers expects he will be joined regularly by GestiFute staff from Portugal and further afield to watch prospective recruits and his brief for watching players could also bring him into their UK network the focus will on keeping tabs on events at home with a number of players already on his radar He feels the development of the underage national leagues from U-13 upwards is a help in addition to the younger profile of the League of Ireland at senior level "There is a lot to be said for the better young players in our league coming through and playing first team football and playing in full time environments," said the Meathman who is due to help out Monaghan GAA coach Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney with his goalkeeping coaching this year "With the financial constraints there may be in certain clubs younger players are getting more opportunities earlier than they may have "I personally believe that playing senior football in this country is more beneficial than playing U-18 or U-23 football in the UK but it's not a one size fits all approach There may still be benefits to some players by going away earlier.” A Diretoria Executiva da Força Invicta firmou parceria através de contrato que disponibiliza aos associados negociações com juros diferenciados para a aquisição de imóveis bem como a garantia de financiamentos de até 100% do valor do imóvel O objetivo da parceria é promover condições especiais para que os associados tenham acesso aos Programas Habitacionais existentes na Caixa além de Consultoria Financeira para aquisição dos demais produtos e serviços da Caixa adequados ao perfil/renda de cada oficial também foi acordado a abertura de um processo de negociação direcionado para a possibilidade de compra antecipada dos valores das cartas precatórias dos associados Estiveram presentes no ato da cerimônia de assinatura do respectivo contrato o Gerente Nacional da Caixa Econômica Federal o Superintendente Nacional de Operações Logísticas o Gerente de Filial de Alienação de Bens móveis e imóveis e a Coordenadora de Filial de Alienação de Bens Móveis e Imóveis home of Steroids Horário de Funcionamento: 08:00h às 17:00h Telefone e WhatsApp: +55 71 3043-0574 © 2025 TEZ NEWS All rights reserved Ronaldo signed a contract worth more than $250 million per year how can someone manage this wealth of assets That task is dedicated to his financial manager He has the keys to the secret chamber and remains indebted to him Not only Ronaldo but also manages sensational Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho’s finances as well According to National, Miguel takes care of his partner’s portfolio as he invested in various hotels No one knew about him until Ronaldo’s former colleague at Sporting José Macedo shared an image featuring the two of them Miguel stands to the extreme right and manages Ronaldo’s vast amount of wealth Due to Ronaldo’s connections with super agent Jorge Mendes he manages the finances of several players and coaches he was present with the administrator of the Portuguese branch of the Swiss bank St Galler Kantonalbank they struck a deal with Chinese companies like Fosun and Gestifute and agreed to work on a business project and a potential injection of Chinese capital in Polaris Jorge Mendes and Luís Correia owned the companies READ MORE- Floyd Mayweather vs. Cristiano Ronaldo Net Worth Comparison: Who Is the Richer Athlete? His office in Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon is close to one of Ronaldo’s luxury apartments Marques manages a portfolio of around one billion Euros Around 15 people assist him in his work to follow a meticulous financial management process Miguel also shares a partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo’s company the manager completed his education at Instituto Superior de Gestão It is incredible to see their striking partnership as Ronaldo trusts Miguel with his vast amount of riches and hair implant companies are all a part of Ronaldo’s wealth Bildnummer: 12791448 Datum: 28.05.2012 Copyright: imago/GlobalImagensCristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid / POR) entsteigt seinem Lamborghini PUBLICATIONxINxGERxSUIxAUTxHUNxONLY; Fussball xmk x2x 2012 quer Aufmacher o0 privat PKW Fahrzeug LuxusImage number 12791448 date 28 05 2012 Copyright imago GlobalImagens Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid POR entsteigt his Lamborghini PUBLICATIONxINxGERxSUIxAUTxHUNxONLY Football xmk x2x 2012 horizontal Highlight o0 Private Car Vehicle Luxury WATCH THIS STORY- Meet the Legendary Tennis Player Who is 3x Richer than Cristiano Ronaldo EssentiallySports is a digital-first sports media house that surfaces the best stories on America's favorite sports celebrities with a fan's perspective to 30+ M average monthly readers. 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