In recent years Portugal's football team has become something of a supporting cast for one, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo is one of the World's most famous footballers.
When I was younger the Portuguese team of those days was also dominated by the reputation of one star player - Eusebio.
When I was younger the Portuguese team of those days was also dominated by the reputation of one star player - Eusebio.
Neither of these players, however, came from Portugal. Eusebio was from Mozambique (a Portuguese colony at the time of his birth). Ronaldo is from Madeiras, islands way off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.
Madeiras, which had been previously known, was made a colony of Portugal in the fifteenth century when an Atlantic storm blew some Portuguese ships off course and they ended up in one of its bays and found refuge there.
So, you never know the beneficial long-term effects of a troublesome storm: this might be a relief to any of us, including the British Prime Minister just now.
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