Luís Pires

Goalkeeper - Amora
19 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luís Pires

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The Amora Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Juninho

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

The dugout

Buby Katty says Amora 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vasco Gomes

“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.

Squad

Heriberto Aguayo 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.

Squad

Luís Pires 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 Amora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes Nuno Rafael a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Amora. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

Back issues
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The Amora Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Marcelo Cauã arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Marcelo Cauã has, at Amora, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Gustavo Simões 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.

Squad

Afonso Silva 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.

Match

Amora come up short against Sporting da Covilhã

Sporting da Covilhã left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Amora are still strangers to each other

24 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Gustavo Tavares to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Amora buy the years ahead of Marcelo Cauã

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Buby Katty

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Amora

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

In brief