Rika

Central Defender - Nacional
18 Sep 2028
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Marked for Rika

90 Edition

The Nacional Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces17 Apr 2028

Anger at Nacional spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market17 Apr 2028

Pablo Ruan 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 The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market17 Apr 2028

Liziero wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Bernardo Fontes 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 Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Chiheb Labidi 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Home is on Ignacio Juárez's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Nacional are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

  • Squad Rika gets it from the manager
  • Market The Lucas João talk will not go away
  • Boardroom The Nacional production line keeps running
Back issues
83 Edition

The Nacional Post

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Feb 2028

Bernardo Fontes keeps Nacional in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Rika: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernardo Fontes 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.

The terraces28 Feb 2028

Nacional supporters have found a favourite in Ignacio Juárez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ignacio Juárez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

One of those days for Ignacio Juárez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad28 Feb 2028

No hiding place for Markus Jensen

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

Match26 Feb 2028

Nacional and Gil Vicente take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

Off the pace: Markus Jensen

A mark of 5.57 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

A day to forget for João Lima

Marked 5.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

78 Edition

The Nacional Post

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces24 Jan 2028

Anger at Nacional spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market24 Jan 2028

Joel Silva hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nacional can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Lenny Vallier keeps the receipts

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

Market24 Jan 2028

Alverca come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nacional did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Rika gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rika has just signed for Nacional, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Bernardo Fontes 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 Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Baeza 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.

Match22 Jan 2028

A bad afternoon for Nacional against Porto

0‑1 to Porto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch24 Jan 2028

Kevyn Vinícius has seen enough of Lusitânia Lourosa

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Nacional, and 7 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief