Dodô

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Moreirense
12 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dodô

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The Moreirense Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kiko Bondoso

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Moreirense

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Moreirense are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Moreirense

Kiko Bondoso 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.

Match

Moreirense come up short against Alverca

Alverca left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Pedro Reis answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Dodô signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dodô commits to Moreirense for another 3 years.

The dugout

The form table has caught Leonardo Vonić

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nile John

“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.

Squad

No place for Dodô in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Moreirense are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Moreirense Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kiko Bondoso 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 Moreirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kiko Bondoso

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Salvador Botelho

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Moreirense will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rui Pedro

“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.

Squad

14 new faces, and Moreirense 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.

Squad

Dodô stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dodô and Moreirense agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Dinis Pinto takes the honours

Marked 7.28 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Moreirense had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Pedro Reis on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pedro Reis after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Maracás

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief