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Football bosses note Portuguese performance (4)

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I believe the answer is:

fado

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'portuguese performance' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'football bosses note' is the wordplay.
'football bosses' becomes 'fa' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'note' becomes 'do' (musical note, as in do-re-mi).
'fa'+'do'='FADO'

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(Other definitions for fado that I've seen before include "Popular Portuguese song, often melancholy" , "Melancholy style of song popular in Portugal" , "Portuguese traditional dance and doleful song" , "Portuguese song genre" , "Portuguese song style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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