Vitinho

Central Midfielder - Atletico Goianiense
6 Feb 2028
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Marked for Vitinho

77 Edition

The Atletico Goianiense Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kahiser Lenis

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

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Cristiano: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Atletico Goianiense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Atletico Goianiense

Luiz Araújo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Words at Atletico Goianiense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marrony 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.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Atletico Goianiense rebuffed over Faustino Barone

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and Atletico Goianiense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Vitinho is a square peg at Atletico Goianiense

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Thayllon 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.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Gustavo Maia gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gustavo Maia is on it.

Market17 Jan 2028

Atletico Goianiense pick up Vitinho for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Vitinho arrives at Atletico Goianiense with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

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70 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match27 Nov 2027

Chastening afternoon for Pacos de Ferreira

A 1‑4 beating by Vizela was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market29 Nov 2027

Gonçalo Cardoso hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pacos de Ferreira can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Nito says Pacos de Ferreira went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Pacos de Ferreira

Petros 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.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Léonard Tchounga gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Léonard Tchounga has just signed for Pacos de Ferreira, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings29 Nov 2027

Miguel Falé was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad29 Nov 2027

A row about effort at Pacos de Ferreira

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

Squad29 Nov 2027

Guillermo Martínez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Pacos de Ferreira can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Gonçalo Cardoso

“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.

In brief

62 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Oct 2027

9 saves: André Picornell was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tiago Mesquita breaks a bone — 71 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market4 Oct 2027

Gonçalo Cardoso hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pacos de Ferreira can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Oct 2027

Fernando Ceará is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pacos de Ferreira is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Petros signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Petros and Pacos de Ferreira agree another 2 years.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Pedro Henrique 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 Pacos de Ferreira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match2 Oct 2027

Vitinho’s goal not enough for Pacos de Ferreira

Vitinho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Alverca, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout4 Oct 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Tiago Silva to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

Vinicius's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Pacos de Ferreira needed to.

In brief