The Tondela Gazette
Match19 Sep 2026
Tondela run riot against Casa Pia
5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Francisco Souza Silva scores twice — 8.22
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Mora scores twice — 8.14
Two goals and a mark of 8.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tondela
Rony Lopes 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 goals as Tondela and Casa Pia go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Tondela and Casa Pia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Rodrigo Mora
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Carraça falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Makan Aïko at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tondela.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Denival 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.
In brief
- Squad Tondela pick somebody else ahead of Bebeto
- Market Tondela put Yaya Sithole up for sale
- Player ratings Rony Lopes runs at them all day