Pedro Davide

Right Back - Rio Ave U20
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Pedro Davide

33 Edition

The Rio Ave Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Jakub Brabec out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rio Ave lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rio Ave

Marios Vrousai 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

Words at Rio Ave training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Petrasso 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.

Market

No place for Petros in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Petros has his answer from Rio Ave; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gustavo

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

Squad

Rio Ave lose Pedro Davide

21 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Jakub Brabec knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rio Ave, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Samuel Lopes chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Petros

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Rio Ave Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jakub Brabec

64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rio Ave lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rio Ave

Marios Vrousai 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

Words at Rio Ave training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ole Pohlmann 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.

Match

Rio Ave come up short against Famalicao

Famalicao left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Cezary Miszta

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

Squad

Rio Ave count the cost of losing Pedro Davide

53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Samuel Lopes left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Tamble Monteiro 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.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Petros

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief