Khadim Ngom

Goalkeeper - Alverca
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Khadim Ngom

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The Alverca Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Market

Bernardo Rodrigues asks to leave Alverca

“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

Paulo Agostinho 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 ratings

Lincoln runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Paulo Agostinho

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

Squad

9 new faces, and Alverca are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Match

Figueiredo rescues a point for Alverca

It needed Figueiredo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AVS, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Khadim Ngom 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 Alverca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

An afternoon Paulo Agostinho will want back

Marked 5.73. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief

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The Alverca Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Mateus 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 The request is on a desk at Alverca, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Alverca lose Sergi Gómez

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

Squad

Paulo Agostinho 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 Alverca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Figueiredo

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

Match

Sporting CP take the points off Alverca

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Cássio Acosta signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cássio Acosta commits to Alverca for another 4 years.

Market

Alverca add cover with Cássio Acosta

It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Cássio Acosta is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.

Market

Khadim Ngom joins Alverca to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Alverca have gone and got theirs early.

Player ratings

An afternoon Paulo Agostinho will want back

Marked 5.50. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief