Fábio Sousa

Goalkeeper - Leiria
27 Sep 2028
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Marked for Fábio Sousa

83 Edition

The Leiria Courier

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Feb 2028

Habib Sylla breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Juan Muñoz 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 Leiria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Reko 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.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

The afternoon belonged to Borislav Rupanov

7.63, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Leiria had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad28 Feb 2028

No hiding place for Famana Quizera

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

Match26 Feb 2028

Leiria share the spoils with Maritimo

A 1‑1 draw with Maritimo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
35 Edition

The Leiria Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad29 Mar 2027

Landinho breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market29 Mar 2027

Only the photograph left for Víctor Rofino

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Víctor Rofino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiria the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Jakob Odehnal 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.

Player ratings29 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Famana Quizera

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Juan Muñoz 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 Leiria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Mar 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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Leiria Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Feb 2027

Landinho breaks a bone — 68 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match20 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Leiria's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Leiria has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Leiria

Juan Muñoz 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.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Jordan van der Gaag 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.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Jota 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.

Match20 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Leiria against Maritimo

0‑2 to Maritimo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

The cruellest goal, and it is Jair Silva's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Leiria will not try tonight.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

A costly moment from Reko

One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Leiria, and it is a cruel one.

The terraces22 Feb 2027

The spotlight tightens on Christian Joel Sánchez

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief