A Bola is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

s newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

, published in Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

. It was founded in 1945 by Cândido de Oliveira

Cândido de Oliveira

Cândido Plácido Fernandes de Oliveira was a Portuguese football player, coach, and sports journalist....

 and Ribeiro dos Reis, and was then published twice a week. It became a daily newspaper in 1995.

Although its subtitle is "newspaper of all sports," some 90% of its content is about football. It is generally seen as appealing to supporters of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, although some of its columnists are supporters of other clubs – former Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes

Pedro Santana Lopes

Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes , a Portuguese lawyer and politician, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005. He is a former and current Member of the Portuguese Parliament.-Background:...

, a Sporting Clube de Portugal supporter, had a column for several years, while columnist Miguel Sousa Tavares

Miguel Sousa Tavares

Miguel Andresen de Sousa Tavares is a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and writer.The son of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and lawyer and politician Francisco Sousa Tavares, Miguel received his education in Law, eventually pursuing careers in journalism and essay writing for which he became...

 caters for Futebol Clube do Porto supporters. Since the 1952–53 season, it hands the Bota de Prata award to the Primeira Liga top goalscorer.

It is the most popular newspaper among Portuguese emigrants abroad, and widely read on the former Portuguese colonies in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. From 2006, it is also printed in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...

, an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 city with a large Portuguese population

Portuguese American

Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira....

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