Gabriel Lopes

Central Midfielder - Nacional
23 Dec 2029
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Marked for Gabriel Lopes

175 Edition

The Nacional Post

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Dec 2029

Marquinhos Cipriano asks to leave Nacional

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match1 Dec 2029

No end in sight to Nacional's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Nacional has to find a result from somewhere.

Market3 Dec 2029

Zé Vitor wants more than Nacional are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Dec 2029

A falling-out at Nacional

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

Squad3 Dec 2029

A row about effort at Nacional

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

Player ratings3 Dec 2029

Nobody could get near Gabriel Veron

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad3 Dec 2029

A place in the month's best eleven for Gustavo Fonte

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gustavo Fonte has come out of that comparison in the side, and Nacional have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Match1 Dec 2029

Nacional share the spoils with Gil Vicente

A 1‑1 draw with Gil Vicente leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market3 Dec 2029

Still no ink between Nacional and José Gomes

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Nacional, another week without a signature from José Gomes.

In brief

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The Nacional Post

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market23 Jul 2029

Julián Fabregas has said yes to IMT

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nacional have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market23 Jul 2029

Filipe Soares puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets23 Jul 2029

Alexandre Guedes due for a Nacional medical

Everything agreed with Pacos de Ferreira, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market23 Jul 2029

Liziero has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nacional can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Gabriel Lopes is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Nacional

Gabriel Veron and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad23 Jul 2029

A late step up for David Costa

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Chiheb Labidi 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.

The dugout23 Jul 2029

Matheus Dias knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nacional, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

152 Edition

The Nacional Post

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Jun 2029

Daniel Fonseca breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets25 Jun 2029

Rico Henry due for a Nacional medical

Everything agreed with Porto, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market25 Jun 2029

Filipe Soares puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market25 Jun 2029

Bahia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nacional did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad25 Jun 2029

The step up is real for Gabriel Lopes

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad25 Jun 2029

Words exchanged at Nacional

Gabriel Veron and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad25 Jun 2029

A muscle injury sidelines José Gomes for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Nacional will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Market25 Jun 2029

Daniel Restrepo is a Nacional player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market25 Jun 2029

Zé Vitor linked with a move away

The name of Zé Vitor keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nacional say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

98 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market12 Jun 2028

Terms done: Eduardo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Corinthians waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bragantino is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market12 Jun 2028

Bragantino say no — this time

The offer from Paysandu for Henry Mosquera was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout12 Jun 2028

Ignacio Laquintana says Bragantino 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.

Player ratings12 Jun 2028

Age has not caught Eduardo Sasha yet — 8.20

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.20 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market12 Jun 2028

Gabriel Lopes puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bragantino, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Jun 2028

Gustavo Marques wants more than Bragantino are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

Squad12 Jun 2028

José María Herrera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” José María Herrera and Bragantino agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad12 Jun 2028

A row about effort at Bragantino

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

In brief