Allan

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
17 Aug 2031
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193 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout8 Apr 2030

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Market8 Apr 2030

Thiago Balieiro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vitoria Guimaraes is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

Dodô signs for Académico de Viseu while still at Vitoria Guimaraes

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dodô has agreed terms with Académico de Viseu for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad8 Apr 2030

Words exchanged at Vitoria Guimaraes

Gabriel Veron and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad8 Apr 2030

Words at Vitoria Guimaraes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout8 Apr 2030

Allan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad8 Apr 2030

5 new faces, and Vitoria Guimaraes are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad8 Apr 2030

Gabriel Veron makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout8 Apr 2030

João Mendes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say João Mendes is on it.

In brief

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191 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

25 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Mar 2030

Gabriel Veron is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.76 with 37 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings25 Mar 2030

M'Bala Nzola, 33, rolls back the years — 10.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 10.00 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad25 Mar 2030

A day M'Bala Nzola will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market25 Mar 2030

Thiago Balieiro asks to leave Vitoria Guimaraes

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market25 Mar 2030

Only the photograph left for Adrián Butzke

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrián Butzke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vitoria Guimaraes the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad25 Mar 2030

Gabriel Veron in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vitoria Guimaraes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match23 Mar 2030

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Vitoria Guimaraes and Estrela da Amadora in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match23 Mar 2030

M'Bala Nzola the difference as Vitoria Guimaraes beat Estrela da Amadora

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: M'Bala Nzola. 4‑2 against Estrela da Amadora, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad25 Mar 2030

Allan reaches 500 appearances

500 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

In brief

185 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Match6 Feb 2030

Vitoria Guimaraes out of the cup

Académico de Viseu ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match9 Feb 2030

Gonçalo Nogueira wins it after the whistle should have gone

94 minutes played. Gonçalo Nogueira found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Alverca went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad11 Feb 2030

Guilherme Ribeiro keeps Vitoria Guimaraes in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market11 Feb 2030

Allan asks to leave Vitoria Guimaraes

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market11 Feb 2030

Leandro Antonetti’s move to Rio Ave falls through

The deal that would have taken Leandro Antonetti to Rio Ave has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vitoria Guimaraes with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Player ratings11 Feb 2030

M'Bala Nzola, 33, rolls back the years — 8.47

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.47 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout11 Feb 2030

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The dugout11 Feb 2030

Alexis Ríos: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vitoria Guimaraes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market11 Feb 2030

Alexis Ríos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vitoria Guimaraes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

169 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

22 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Oct 2029

A fracture rules Jandrei out for 104 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vitoria Guimaraes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings22 Oct 2029

Gabriel Veron scores twice — 8.95

Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market22 Oct 2029

Only the photograph left for Eduardo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eduardo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vitoria Guimaraes the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout22 Oct 2029

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Player ratings22 Oct 2029

Fabio Blanco runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad22 Oct 2029

Tempers go at Vitoria Guimaraes

Gabriel Veron was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market22 Oct 2029

As if he never left: Pedro Silva returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Pedro Silva is a Vitoria Guimaraes player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad22 Oct 2029

Pedro Silva gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pedro Silva has just signed for Vitoria Guimaraes, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad22 Oct 2029

A row about effort at Vitoria Guimaraes

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief