João Capucho

Left Back - Benfica B
15 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for João Capucho

30 Edition

The Benfica B Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rafael Obrador asks to leave Benfica B

“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.

Squad

João Capucho keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Federico Coletta

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Rodrigo Rêgo 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 Benfica B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luka Veličković 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.

Squad

Rafael Obrador 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.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Benfica B Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rafael Obrador 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 The request is on a desk at Benfica B, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Benfica B say no — this time

The offer from Flamengo for João Veloso 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.

Player ratings

Olívio Tomé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Real improvement from Olívio Tomé at Benfica B

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Olívio Tomé is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

João Capucho keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Benfica B

Lucas Menossi 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.

In brief