Goalkeeper David Martin has signed his first professional contract with Portuguese side Moimenta da Beira Martin joined the club at the weekend and is happy to be taking the first steps in what he hopes will be a long professional career “It feels really good to reach this milestone in my career,” Martin told The Royal Gazette I have been playing soccer since I was 4 years old and look at this as another chapter in my journey The player joined the club without having to take part in a trial after the Moimenta da Beira coaching staff were impressed after watching video footage of him in action He arrived at the club last Friday and attended his first training session with his new club on Monday as he awaits a work visa and undergoes a medical exam before being declared fit to play “It’s definitely different from the traditional way,” Martin said “But I’m excited about my journey and looking forward to the future “Today [Monday] is my first day of training and the transition has been good so far “There is a language barrier so I have to get used to it but will be taking classes to learn as well Martins joins with his new club second from bottom in the AF Viseu Divisão de Honra having taken only six points from their 17 matches to date including a 2-0 defeat at home to third-place Lamelass at the weekend and I watched my team play on Saturday,” Martin said Martin was recommended to the club by Tony Robinson who heads up English-based football consultancy company which has close ties with former Bermuda defender Dennis Brown “It’s good to see David progress and I have known him since he was five,” Brown said “When I first met him he was a striker and then he became a goalkeeper and as the years went by he progressed to where he is today he is very sound and an excellent goalkeeper I have seen him make tremendous progress over the years “He is very good with his feet and an excellent communicator and we are expecting big things from David moving forward in Portugal which is one of the best breeding grounds for young talent in the world Moimenta de Beira is the second professional club Martin has been involved with after spending time at the academy of Major League Soccer side DC United who also holds United States and British citizenship was called up to the national under-20 squad at the age 16 for the Concacaf Qualifiers last year is thrilled to see Martin reap the reward for his hard work ethic and commitment “I’m excited for David and this is just a testament to his hard work and dedication,” he said “He has always shown commitment in training and games but what’s been important is him being very humble to put his head down and continue to work “I wish David all the best and will be keeping an eye on him to see how he progresses.” Martin was also selected for the United States Under-17 team for the 2023 Capelli Sport Cup in Denmark He was selected to the United States Youth National Team Identification Programme in 2022 and made the Elite Clubs National League Mid-Atlantic All-Conference first team the next year The teenager is enrolled at Northern High School in Maryland but will complete his final year of studies online You must be Registered or to post comment or to vote Which of the Throne Speech promises is the Government best equipped to deliver on View Results home to the country’s Port production has been named as this year’s European City of Wine the Douro Valley is the oldest demarcated wine region in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site The region was named European City of Wine 2023 in June last year, and the Douro Intermunicipal Community (CIM Douro) a local administrative division in the region has said it has “dozens of initiatives” planned throughout the year “to show the Douro to Europe” “With this distinction as European City of Wine 2023, the Douro cherishes the legitimate desire for the region to be a major contributor to national exports, to make wine and vineyards a concrete and real lever for the development of its economy and the wealth of those who live and work here” CIM Douro said in a statement CIM Douro was launched in 2009 and comprises the municipalities of Alijó The administrative group described the new accolade as an “opportunity to promote wine tourism culture and heritage and to be able to welcome visitors with dignity and amply highlighting wine as a strategic element and essence of our economic activity” The presentation gala celebrating the region as the European City of Wine is set to take place on 4 February at 9pm In May 2022 db reported that the socio-economic impact of increasing price pressure will threaten one of Portugal’s oldest wine regions, not climate change. Read more on that story here. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again Hatched as an optimistic flight of fancy barely a year ago Âncora Wind’s privately-funded project sees the two artists adapt their signature motifs to the challenge Vasconcelos’ Gone With the Wind offers a celebratory mélange of folk-inspired iconography whose central heart faces the small nearby community Street artist Vhils – renowned for carving city walls into monumental portraits of anonymous figures – wraps his turbine in a graphic extrapolation of nature’s textures and a surveying human eye As Portugal plots its path towards a sustainable future the one-off WindArt project offers a cultural point of punctuation escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org "Black Soul," explores a blood libel set in 1492 (JTA) — The world’s longest-running festival dealing with the Spanish Inquisition kicks off next week heritage and history of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were persecuted and forced into Christianity after 1492 Among its highlights is a new play about a medieval murder that was blamed on Jews in a blood libel The play, titled “Black Soul,” will be performed next week at the Los Conversos festival in the town of Hervas Taking place for the 22nd consecutive year the festival takes its name from the Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism in Spain or Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries the Catholic Church and Spain’s royal house initiated the Inquisition conversos and others in a campaign that spread in 1536 to neighboring Portugal Hundreds of thousands were forced into exile At the center of the fictional play by Miguel Gómez Andrea is the murder of a young women named Juanita. The play depicts the suspicions and hatred of the time but also some acts valor by non-Jewish neighbors, according to the Hoy news website Hervas has one of the Iberian Peninsula’s best-preserved Jewish quarters Among the few Jews living there is Abigail Cohen Separately, in Portugal, the northern town of Moimenta da Beira said it would open a Jewish history museum in one of its oldest and best-known buildings, the Casa de Moimenta, also known as Casa do Carrasco, the Jornal do Centro reported As in other towns in Portugal that used to have large Jewish communities the Jews of Moimenta da Beira felt confident enough to advertise their Jewish identity even after they were forced by law to convert to Christianity Some forcibly converted Jews carved into the exterior walls of the homes marks that read “horror” in Hebrew when read inversely Others chipped off from the stone door frames of their homes the section to which a mezuzah would have been affixed Spain and Portugal passed laws in 2013 that grant citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who left because of the Inquisition JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy Francisco Miguel Ribeiro Tomé Tavares Bondoso completed his transfer from FC Vizela after successfully completing his medical and signing at Maccabi initially until the end of the 2025/26 season.   received the number 70 jersey at Maccabi and is set to join the rest of the squad for Saturday’s session Kiko made his first footballing footsteps at the youth academies of his boyhood town Moimenta da Beira and Academico de Viseu in the center of Portugal He made his senior debut for Moimenta da Beira at the age of 18 and scored 19 goals in 114 appearances between 2013-2018 Kiko then moved to Ferriera de Aves for one season (2017/18) where he scored 9 goals in 30 appearances Another season (2018/19) at Lusitano Vildemoinhos resulted with 7 goals in 34 appearances moved to Vizela for which he scored 25 goals in 139 appearances in all competitions Sign up for FREE in 2 easy steps to gain access to all online content and our newsletter: We are excited to welcome you to Maccabi Tel Aviv FC online please confirm your email address by opening the link in the email we sent you when you signed up In the email you will find your membership number In order to complete your registration please sign in Your spot/s will be saved for 10 minutes in order for you to be able to complete the registration A code was sent to your mobile phone please click on it in order to confirm your registration “In the first half of 2024 (last 12 months) 39 municipalities recorded rents above the national average (€7.60/m²),” highlights the INE in the bulletin published at the end of September This means that the vast majority of the 215 municipalities with available data – out of a total of 308 municipalities in the country – have house rents below the national average There are also 106 municipalities where houses were rented for less than €5/m² there are still 56 municipalities with median rents below €4/m² a 100-square-metre (m²) home would have been rented for less than €500 per month in these locations PexelsWhat are the 10 cheapest places to rent a house in Portugal?You need to travel to the interior of the country to find the 10 cheapest municipalities for renting a house These are the only municipalities in the country where houses were rented for a median price of less than €3/m² has the cheapest house rents of all: €2.28/m² in the last 12 months ending in June rental contracts were closed for less than €270 per month (median) It was also possible to rent a 100 m² house for less than €300 per month in Gouveia idealistaWhere is renting property most expensive in Portugal? At the opposite end of the table are the municipalities with the highest house rents in the country a 100 m² house was rented for a median cost of €1,563 during this period The second municipality with the highest house rents is Cascais (€14.87/m²) Following closely are Oeiras (€13.46/m²) and Porto (€12.21/m²) Renting a 100 m² house in these municipalities had a median cost of over €1,200 per month It is notable that most of the top 10 most expensive municipalities for renting a house are located in Greater Lisbon “The territorial pattern of rents per m² for new rental contracts by municipality highlighted with values higher than the national average all municipalities in Greater Lisbon and the Setúbal Peninsula the Algarve (10 out of 15 with available data) and the Porto Metropolitan Area (5 out of 17),” reads the document released by INE Renting a house in Portugal: supply soars by 59% at the end of 2024 The Portuguese rental market experienced a slowdown in mid-2024 likely due to both a lack of available properties and new incentives for home purchases such as lower interest rates or the IMT exemption for young buyers This reduced activity in the rental market alongside higher profitability for properties purchased to let and the arrival of new real estate developments on the market may help explain why the supply of rental properties in Portugal increased by 59% at the end of 2024 compare Nick Abbot is Leading Britain's Conversation Portugal's Algarve are tackling wildfires following the third dangerous heatwave of the year - but where is the blaze Extreme heatwaves have been targeting Europe this summer from Greece and now Portugal is currently battling flames in the Algarve area - a popular holiday destination Starting on Saturday 5th August, and during the third dangerous heatwave to arrive in Portugal, around 800 firefighters have been tackling the flames that has already destroyed around 6,700 hectares of land Nine firefighters were injured tackling the wildfire, which started as weather temperatures soared towards 40C on the Iberian peninsula Santarém in Portugal recorded 46.4C on Monday the hottest temperature of the year so far Read more: Brits who were forced to flee Rhodes due to wildfires will be offered free holiday next year, Greek PM confirms Read more: Exact date 33C heatwave will hit UK after weekend of wet and windy weather four tourist accommodations and a camping site have been evacuated out of precaution as the country remains on red alert for extreme heath Authorities have put 120 areas in Portugal on maximum alert for further wildfires Around 1,400 people were evacuated from the area of Odemira as this is where wildfires are at their worst This area is just North of Portugal's Faro district which is home to the popular summer holiday destination of Algarve The fire is said to be spreading southwards towards the Algarve as the high temperatures continue and strong winds aid its travel difficult and complex" as they struggle to get the flames under control A total of 120 areas across Portugal have been put on maximum alert for wildfires More than 70 people evacuated as wildfire spreads near Lisbon Portugal has a wildfire season between June and September they have begun to see very high temperatures as early as April and as late as October This shows how climate change is affecting their wild fire period they are quite common for this time of year the continuous extreme temperatures are making them harder to tackle and control Just looking at the Algarve for the next five days temperatures seem to be taking a dip as they range from 26C to 33C there is no chance of rain and the wind speed 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