Dear Portuguese and allies:

While everyone knows our beloved country independency started with a battle between our first king and it’s mother, details on how it started got somewhere lost in time…but not in our family’s memories.

It actually started as a party with a casual “ball” tournament in it. While D. Teresa’s guests’ started to play it things got more organised and competitive by the moment – on the other side, friends and supporters of D. Afonso Henriques didn’t want to lose opportunity to show the future of Portugal was well assured under their leadership.

As you can already imagine, things escalated: a “ball” game turned into a “football match”; a “football match” turned into a “blood bowl game”; a “blood bowl game” turned into a battle field! The outcome is History.

And I’d like to celebrate that moment in my Palace with a Blood Bowl tournament, summoning all portuguese to participate and inviting all coaches around the world to join us in this event – hopefully we’ll have an joyful moment and a different outcome other than dividing countries…

We ask you to bring your fiercest players, your cunning tactics, your outrageous plays and your best mood and jokes along with it so we can make it an unforgettable occasion.

Marquês de Fronteira
Lisbon, 5th November, 2023