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Marked for Tony Strata

26 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market25 Jan 2027

Óscar Rivas 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 Vitoria Guimaraes can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

A brace, and Oumar Camara takes the afternoon — 8.79

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oumar Camara provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Gustavo Silva was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Market25 Jan 2027

So close: Fabio Blanco’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Pacos de Ferreira moved on, Fabio Blanco reports back to Vitoria Guimaraes, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Market25 Jan 2027

Vitoria Guimaraes say no — this time

The offer from Viitorul for Dieu Michel 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.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Sporting CP tell Vitoria Guimaraes: Raúl Rangel is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces25 Jan 2027

One of their own: Oumar Camara

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match23 Jan 2027

Vitoria Guimaraes get the job done against AVS

A 2‑0 win over AVS, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Vitoria Guimaraes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tony Strata 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.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2026

6 saves: Juan Diego Castillo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad28 Dec 2026

João Mendes 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 Vitoria Guimaraes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match26 Dec 2026

Still nobody has beaten Vitoria Guimaraes

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Miguel Maga 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

Tony Strata reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Gustavo Silva runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Vitoria Guimaraes keep their word to Beni Mukendi

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

Guilherme Paula wants to come home

“I did not go to Felgueiras to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vitoria Guimaraes and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Mateus Mané asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

10 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Oumar Camara, 19, steals the show — 7.76

Marked 7.76 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad5 Oct 2026

João Mendes 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 Vitoria Guimaraes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Oct 2026

Vitoria Guimaraes end the wait against Arouca

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Samu

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

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nélson Oliveira did the work nobody counts — 6.75

12 combined actions and 6.75. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Vitoria Guimaraes supporters have found a favourite in Tony Strata

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Tony Strata has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Mateus Mané beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match3 Oct 2026

Vitoria Guimaraes find a way past Arouca

Arouca made Vitoria Guimaraes work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Vitoria Guimaraes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Maga 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.

In brief