Portugal ignore Israeli religious beliefs

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Published time: October 17, 2012 13:09
Edited time: October 17, 2012 17:09

Portuguese national team head coach, Paolo Bento i(RIA Novosti/Alexey Filippov)

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The Israeli football team’s attempts to reschedule their home World Cup qualifier against Portugal due to Shabbat are most likely to be in vain.

According to Sport-Express newspaper, the Israelis wanted the game to be moved from Friday, March 22, 2013 to an earlier date – Thursday, March 21.

But Portugal’s coach Paulo Bento strongly objects the initiative, saying he won’t have enough time to prepare his players properly for the important encounter.

Israel and Portugal currently share the second spot in Group F of the Brazil 2014 qualifying.

The teams are level on seven points after four games, with leaders Russia five points ahead.

If the game is not rescheduled it will begin 3pm Israeli time, as the local footballers can’t play at home after the rising of the first star on Friday night.

Shabbat is the seventh day of the Jewish week, on which the followers of Judaism are forbidden to work.

Israeli national football team's home arena, Ramat Gan, in Tel Aviv. (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Pesnya)

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Nik (unregistered) 18.10.2012 06:38

If they don't play for money, then they arn't working. Play for fun.. Problem solved.

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Brasivnika 18.10.2012 04:10

@thePlague
Once more, gentlemen, we have a JIDF zionist false-information-pl anting troll among us, trying to blur the line between National Socialists and Zionists.

If anything can be said about the National Socialists of 1939, it is that they did not like Jews, especially those in control of their banks and estates. Now, how in the blazing h3lls is a National Socialist a Zionist?

Does this troll realize that the National Socialists did their utmost best to kick the Zionist influence out of their country? Yes, but he doesn't want you to realize that. And he calls us bigots for conversing about the truth.

Well, I've exposed him. Not like it matters, though. He's unregistered and will certainly come back with his usual subversive tendencies, only under a pseudonym. Keep your eyes peeled!

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the plague (unregistered) 18.10.2012 02:15

Interesting that the nazis are alive and well here. It's telling how the bigots here use this situation as another excuse to bash Israel and the Jews. For that matter, the christians are a pretty stupid group...Harry Potter is more believable than this stupid non-existant jesus. As to the german posting here..STFU nazi.

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