Fábio Sousa

Goalkeeper - Leiria
25 Oct 2027
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Marked for Fábio Sousa

56 Edition

The Leiria Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Aug 2027

Jordan van der Gaag breaks Pacos de Ferreira hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Jordan van der Gaag scored in the 85th minute, Pacos de Ferreira had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Leiria took the lot.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Christian Joel Sánchez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Joel Sánchez commits to Leiria for another 4 years.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Leiria

Juan Muñoz 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.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Jaiminho

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Fábio Sousa at Leiria

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fábio Sousa is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Leiria

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

Match21 Aug 2027

Jordan van der Gaag sends Leiria past Pacos de Ferreira

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jordan van der Gaag’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leiria.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Ninety minutes of Jordan van der Gaag at his very best

Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leiria.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Duarte Dias: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Leiria Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match1 Feb 2027

Leiria are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 48 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market1 Feb 2027

João Silva asks to leave Leiria

“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.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

Fábio Sousa says Leiria 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.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Window shuts: 4 in, 1 out at Leiria

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at Leiria

Dominik Prpić 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Pablo Fernández is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Jair Silva 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Words at Leiria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Fernández 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.

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

Septemvri tell Leiria: André Liberal 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Leiria Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

3 goals for Pablo Fernández

The match ball belongs to Pablo Fernández, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match10 Oct 2026

The run is over for Leiria

8 matches without defeat, and then Académico de Viseu. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Leiria

Dominik Prpić 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Pablo Fernández’s goal not enough for Leiria

Pablo Fernández scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑5 to Académico de Viseu, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Fábio Sousa

At 21 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Leiria and Académico de Viseu in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Jaiminho 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

One of those days for Pablo Fernández

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Leiria

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

In brief