Lelê

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Pafos
27 Sep 2026
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Marked for Lelê

8 Edition

The Pafos Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

The knee: Pieros Pittas out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pafos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Up for the corner, and David Luiz delivers — 7.64

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. David Luiz scored, was marked 7.64, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Pafos

Dani Silva 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

Pafos find a way past Paralimni

Paralimni made Pafos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Renan Barnabé

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

Loan watch21 Sep 2026

Thanasis Papadoudis has seen enough of PAEEK

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pafos, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

A satisfied Stelios Charalambous

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Stelios Charalambous could afford to be generous.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

The afternoon ran through Biel

Chances created: 11. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.

Squad21 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Pafos

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

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Pafos Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pieros Pittas

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pafos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Lelê scored one and made one — 7.53

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.53, and 2 involvements.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Pablo Pardal gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pablo Pardal has just signed for Pafos, and for once the answer mattered.

Match29 Aug 2026

Pafos find a way past AEL

AEL made Pafos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Samy Mmaee 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 ratings31 Aug 2026

Jajá stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.86 on the card, and the Pafos support went home talking about one name.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Pafos

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout31 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.” Stelios Charalambous, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Pafos turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

In brief

4 Edition

The Pafos Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pieros Pittas

43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pafos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Business is business: Ken Sema goes

APOEL paid $1.1M and Pafos took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad24 Aug 2026

David Luiz 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Pafos and Jordi Mboula

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Lelê still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pafos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market24 Aug 2026

The David Goldar talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pafos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to AEL
  • Squad David Goldar is starting to look at home