“Against all odds”, Portugal is in the Eurovision final

The Napa found themselves to the final of the festival that is taking place in Switzerland, with the song “displaced”.

Portugal today went to the 69th Eurovision Song Festival, which runs until Saturday in Basel, Switzerland, against the predictions of the betting houses.

The exclusion of Portugal from the final, which this year is represented by the song “Dislocated”, Napa, It was expected to be evaluated by the average of several bookmakers, calculated by the eurovisionworld.com website, specializing in the contest.

Beyond Portugal, forms the Norway (with the song “Lighter”, played by Kyle Alessandro), Albania (“Zjerm”/ Shkodra Elektronike), Suécia (“Barra Bada Bastu”/ Kaj), Iceland (“Calm”/wise), Countries Bass (“It’s life”/Claude), Poland (“Gaja”/ Justyna Steczkowska), They are Marino (“All Italy/Gabry Ponte), Estonia (“Macchiato Espresso/Tommy Cash) e Ukraine (“Bird of pray”/Ziferblat).

Out of the final were: Slovenia (“How Much Time of the We have Left”/Klemen), Belgium (“Strobe Lights”/Red Sebastian), Azerbaijan (“Run with you”/Mamagama), Croatia (“Poison Cake”/Marko Bošnjak) and Cyprus (“Shh”/Theo Evan).

In the first semifinal were also presented the themes of Spain (“Esa diva”/Melody), Italy (“I wanted to be a tough”/Lucio Corsi) and Switzerland (“Voyage”/Zoë Më), countries that have the guaranteed ticket to the final. The first two for being part of the ‘Big5’ group and the last one for being the host country, winner of last year’s edition.

The realization of two semifinals, To investigate countries in competition in the final, it happened for the first time in 2008 and since then Portugal had failed the passage five times: in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2019. This year, Portugal was inserted in a group of 15 countries, where 10 went to the final.

A next semifinal occurs this Thursday, e The final takes place on Saturday night (17), in which Portugal will face another 25 countries.

At the event, the artist also marked Iolandawhich last year guaranteed Portugal 10th place at the eurovision of the song with “Scream” – participated in a tribute to Céline Dion.