The Amarante Sentinel
Squad28 Dec 2026
Max Walef damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Amarante
A 0‑3 beating by Sanjoanense was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 18, Tomás Soares is already the best thing here
An average of 7.06 in a first team he is several years too young for. Amarante have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Paolo Yrizar 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Amarante
Rúben Filipe 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Amarante
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Amarante 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Luis Rodrigues: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Douglas Silva
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Roger César
- The dugout Martim Duarte left out for tactical reasons at Amarante
- The dugout A door opens for Harruna Iddriss