Antony

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Portland Timbers
31 Aug 2026
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Marked for Antony

4 Edition

The Portland Timbers Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Joao Ortiz takes the afternoon — 8.28

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Joao Ortiz provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market24 Aug 2026

Alexander Aravena wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Portland Timbers

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

Match22 Aug 2026

Joao Ortiz the difference as Portland Timbers beat Sporting Kansas City

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joao Ortiz. 3‑1 against Sporting Kansas City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Jimer Fory at his very best

Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Portland Timbers.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Kristoffer Velde

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Dylan Robinson, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Juan Mosquera

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Everybody has an opinion about James Pantemis

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Portland Timbers Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 Aug 2026

Nowhere to hide for Portland Timbers

1‑5 against Austin FC, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match12 Aug 2026

Portland Timbers out of the cup

San Diego Football Club ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad17 Aug 2026

James Pantemis decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Alex Bonetig goes up and wins it — 7.60

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.60 for the rest of it.

Match15 Aug 2026

Kevin Kelsy among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Kevin Kelsy on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Portland Timbers and Austin FC.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Portland Timbers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antony 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 dugout17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for James Pantemis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to James Pantemis, and the manager let it.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Portland Timbers dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Zac McGraw fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

In brief

2 Edition

The Portland Timbers Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Portland Timbers close the window on a squad of their own making

11 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Kahveh Zahiroleslam is a medical away from Portland Timbers

The deal with Cracovia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kevin Kelsy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Kelsy and Portland Timbers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Portland Timbers

Kevin Kelsy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Chris Brady

Portland Timbers asked and Chicago Fire said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match8 Aug 2026

San Diego Football Club take the points off Portland Timbers

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market10 Aug 2026

Zac McGraw attracts admirers

The name of Zac McGraw has come up in conversations Portland Timbers were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market10 Aug 2026

Portland Timbers promote Jack Weah from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jack Weah has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Alex Brooks joins the Portland Timbers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Brooks is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Portland Timbers Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad3 Aug 2026

A career in one shirt: Diego Chará

15 seasons and 640 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Felipe Carballo pops up at the right end — 7.79

7.79, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market3 Aug 2026

Kevin Kelsy wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Antony signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antony commits to Portland Timbers for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Antony wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Portland Timbers can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Portland Timbers

Kevin Kelsy 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.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Kevin Kelsy 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Felipe Carballo sends Portland Timbers past FC Dallas

It finished 1‑0, and it was Felipe Carballo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Portland Timbers.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Antony's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief