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Mutola was born in 1972 in the poor shanty town of Chamanculo on the outskirts of Maputo, then known as Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese Mozambique. [1] Her father was employed by the railways and her mother was a market vendor. As a young girl she excelled in football. She played with boys, as there were no leagues or teams for girls.
The 2024 COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship (Portuguese: Campeonato Feminino Sub-17 COSAFA Moçambique 2024) is the fifth edition of the COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship, the international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of COSAFA. It was initially scheduled to be hosted by ...
Teresa Heinz (born Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira; October 5, 1938), [1] [2] also known as Teresa Heinz Kerry, [2] is a Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist. Heinz is the widow of former U.S. Senator John Heinz and the current wife of former United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate , longtime U.S. Senator ...
The country was named Moçambique by the Portuguese after the Island of Mozambique, derived from either Mussa Bin Bique, Musa Al Big, Mossa Al Bique, Mussa Ben Mbiki or Mussa Ibn Malik, an Arab trader who first visited the island and later lived there [16] and was still alive when Vasco da Gama called at the island in 1498. [17]
Here's when "Portuguese Problems" will be broadcast, and how you can tune in. 'Portuguese Problems': The Portuguese Kids are getting their own TV series. When and where to watch
Sportspeople from Maputo (1 C, 41 P) Pages in category "People from Maputo" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Mariza sang the Portuguese national anthem at the 2002 FIFA World Cup of football, at the game which pitted the home team (South Korea) against Portugal. By the time Mariza's second album, Fado Curvo , was released in 2003, she was considered a member of the New Fado movement, with a voice reminiscent of traditional divas of the musical form ...
According to the 1997 census, [2] 40% of the population of Mozambique spoke Portuguese. 9% spoke it at home, and 6.5% considered Portuguese to be their mother tongue. According to the general population survey taken in 2017, Portuguese is now spoken natively by 16.6% of the population aged 5 and older (or 3,686,890) and by one in every five people aged 15 t