Ryan Felipe

Central Midfielder - Gil Vicente U20
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Ryan Felipe

40 Edition

The Gil Vicente Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sergio Bermejo damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.

The dugout

Lucão keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gil Vicente may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Pedro Sanca 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 The request is on a desk at Gil Vicente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Gil Vicente

Héctor Hernández 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.

Squad

Ryan Felipe 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. Ryan Felipe has, at Gil Vicente, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Martín Fernández makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ricardo Esgaio

“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.

Market

Gil Vicente sign Ryan Felipe, one for the future

Ryan Felipe is 20, and Gil Vicente have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Weverson 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 Weverson is on it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Gustavo Scarpa damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.

Boardroom

Atlético Mineiro to lose Ryan Felipe for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ryan Felipe has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Player ratings

Renan Lodi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Alexsander signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexsander commits to Atlético Mineiro for another 5 years.

Squad

Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renan Lodi 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Atlético Mineiro

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Igor Gomes

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

Player ratings

Tomás Cuello takes the honours

Marked 7.98 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Atlético Mineiro had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Atlético Mineiro and Ceará take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout When it matters, Victor Hugo plays
  • The dugout Victor Hugo knocks on the manager's door