Sporting Clube de Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾtĩɡ ˈklube de ˈbɾaɡɐ]) (Euronext: SCB), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club, from the city of Braga. Its football team plays at the AXA Stadium, also known as The Quarry, which was built for UEFA Euro 2004. Domestically, Braga won the 1965–1966 Portuguese Cup. In the 2000s, the club gradually became one of Portugal's most successful clubs after the Big Three and have also competed with some success in European competitions, winning the last ever UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2008 and reaching the final of the UEFA Europa League in 2011. After finishing in second place for the only time to date in the 2009-10 Primeira Liga, Sporting de Braga achieved a place in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in its history by eliminating Celtic FC and Sevilla FC. Sporting de Braga is currently sponsored by Italian sportswear company Macron.

Braga, who owe their Sporting Clube tag to the better known Sporting Clube de Portugal, after whom they were named, have been known as Arsenal do Minho and changed their kits from green and white to their Arsenal-style red during the 1945–46 (with the reserve squad) and the 1946–47 (with the main team) seasons due to their president José Antunes Guimarães who had business connections in London and was an Arsenal fan (this is one version of the story: the other one says that Josef Szabo, a Hungarian coach who loved Arsenal's playing style asked the president to change the green and white uniform to a Arsenal-style red). In that year (1947) they won the Second division title reaching the First division for the first time. Braga even renamed their youth team Arsenal de Braga.

Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: ['b?a??]), is a city in the municipality of Braga in northwestern Portuguese district of Braga, considered the oldest Christian archdiocese in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Under the Roman Empire, known as Bracara Augusta, the settlement was centre of the province of Gallaecia.

With a total urban population of 175,063 inhabitants, Braga is the third-largest city in Portugal (after Lisbon and Porto), including the city and suburban parishes; the municipality, which includes 62 parishes, has a population in 2011 of approximately 181,819 inhabitants (the seventh largest municipality in Portugal by population). Its agglomerated urban area extends from the Cavado River to the Easte River. Braga is also the seat of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho, which includes a population of 826,833 (2007 statistics), considered one of the fastest growing urban areas in the European Union.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, the city was awarded with the title European Youth Capital 2012.

Domingos José Paciência Oliveira, simply Domingos as a player (Portuguese pronunciation: [duˈmĩɣuʃ]); born 2 January 1969 in Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos), is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a striker, and a current manager.

He achieved success with both Porto and the Portuguese national team, appearing in more than 350 official games with the former over the course of 12 seasons (nearly 150 goals), and representing the latter at Euro 1996.

After completing his accreditation in 2005, Domingos resumed his career as a manager, notably helping Braga reach the 2011 Europa League final.

A F.C. Porto trainee since he was 13, discovered at local Atlético de Leça, Domingos proved to be a terrific goalscorer despite being physically weak. Tomislav Ivić eventually decided he should be the replacement for an ageing Fernando Gomes, and made his main squad debut at age 19, being crowned top scorer in the Portuguese league in the 1995–96 season; previously, in 1990–91, he was involved in a last-matchday battle for the Bola de Prata award with S.L. Benfica's Rui Águas, with Águas' team having won the championship the game before: Domingos played first, putting four past Vitória de Guimarães in a 5–0 home win, going from 20 to 24 goals. Águas appeared hours later against S.C. Beira-Mar, and bagged two second-half goals in an eventual 3–0 triumph, finishing with 25.

Manuel Jesualdo Ferreira (born 24 May 1946) is a Portuguese football manager who currently manages Greek club Panathinaikos.

In Ferreira's early career, he managed Rio Maior and Torreense. Ferreira was the assistant manager for the Portuguese national team in the 1990s, and manager for the under-21 national team, until the 1999–00 season.

In 1984–85, Ferreira took over at Académica de Coimbra and was dismissed after matchday seven with the balance of one victory and six defeats, being replaced by Vítor Manuel who led the team to a final seventh place. He also coached Estrela da Amadora, but the club was relegated to Liga de Honra in the 1990–91 season. Ferreira became famous when he took over at the Portuguese under-21 national team, coaching skilled players, such as future senior squad star Maniche.

Ferreira arrived at Alverca in 2000–01, where he took the team to 12th place in the Liga. With good results, Ferreira then left for Benfica for the 2001–02 season. After a poor string of results, he was fired by Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira after a losing a cup match at home to third division side Gondomar. He was replaced by the Spanish José Antonio Camacho as manager of as Águias.

Raul Rusescu (born 9 July 1988 in Romania) is a Romanian football player who currently plays for Liga I club Steaua Bucureşti. His preferred position is that of a Striker but he can also play as a Winger. When he came to Steaua Bucureşti his teammates started calling him Pufulete (Puffy) because of his double chin.

At the age of 7 Rusescu was spotted by Cristi Bora at a trial and brought to CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea. As a youth he tore open his calf when he fell out of a bus, and the subsequently broke his tibia falling down on ice. Here he was a group teammate with later Steaua Bucureşti colleague Mihai Costea. Although he went through the youth systems of CSM Râmnicu Vâlcea in 2005 the then coach of the team: Adrian Furnică decided that the player doesn't have value and that he is not likely to grow.

In 2005 he was brought to Liga II side Unirea Urziceni under the command of Dan Petrescu. He had limited playing time in his first year with the team while they earned promotion to the Liga I.

His team now being in the first tear of Romanian football he was loaned to Dunărea Giurgiu. Although not 18 yet, he quickly became a starter and finished the season with 13 goals overall. For the 2007–08 season he was again loaned to Liga II team CS Otopeni. He helped the gain promotion to the Liga I by scorring four goals in 20 games.