by Clive Martin @https://twitter.com/@thugclive Published 2 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? It was the Portuguese who first came up with the term 'a geração de ouro' – the Golden Generation. Theirs was the one of Luis Figo, Rui Costa, Nuno Gomes et al – a set of exciting young players who miraculously came of age around the same time, forming a team fit to carry the dreams of a football-obsessed nation after years of underachievement. They won consecutive FIFA youth championships in the early ‘90s, but a decade of disappointment followed and the golden boys started to rust. The squad drifted, new players came in, a few lasted until Euro 2004 – but the term...
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