The Nacional Post
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Allen Obando, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Nacional's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Nacional has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Kevyn Vinícius at Nacional
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kevyn Vinícius is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brinner 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 Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
One of their own: Allen Obando
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market28 Sep 2026
Nacional may not be able to give Zé Vitor what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Zé Vitor wants continental football; whether Nacional can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Nacional training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ulisses 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nacional are still strangers to each other
17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Match26 Sep 2026
Honours even between Nacional and Famalicao
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- The dugout Nuno Ferreira on the point
- The dugout The form table has caught Éverton
- Player ratings Daniel Júnior runs at them all day