Octávio Silva

Striker - Vasco da Gama
7 Feb 2036
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Marked for Octávio Silva

492 Edition

The Vasco da Gama Courier

31 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match29 Dec 2035

The wait goes on for Vasco da Gama

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Nuno Moreira 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 Vasco da Gama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market31 Dec 2035

Everton Moraes has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vasco da Gama they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market31 Dec 2035

Lucas Eduardo is a Vasco da Gama player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Younes Taha 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.

Match29 Dec 2035

Octávio Silva’s goal not enough for Vasco da Gama

Octávio Silva scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Cruzeiro, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad31 Dec 2035

The manager makes an example of Cauan Barros

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings31 Dec 2035

Younes Taha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings31 Dec 2035

Brandon López in the eights

A performance of 8.66 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

Back issues
491 Edition

The Vasco da Gama Courier

24 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Dec 2035

A hiding for Vasco da Gama

Beaten 2‑5 by Fluminense, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market24 Dec 2035

Only the photograph left for Alan Saldivia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alan Saldivia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vasco da Gama the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings24 Dec 2035

Age has not caught Nuno Moreira yet — 8.65

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.65 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market24 Dec 2035

Octávio 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 Vasco da Gama can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Dec 2035

Tempers go at Vasco da Gama

Nuno Moreira 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.

Squad24 Dec 2035

A move Jeimes would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jeimes is living that version at Vasco da Gama, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match22 Dec 2035

The wait goes on for Vasco da Gama

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Boardroom24 Dec 2035

Vasco da Gama to lose Everton Moraes for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Everton Moraes has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad24 Dec 2035

Marino Hinestroza 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.

In brief

471 Edition

The Vasco da Gama Courier

6 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Match4 Aug 2035

Vasco da Gama strike at the death to beat Internacional

There were 86 minutes on the clock and Internacional had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Vasco da Gama did not stop to explain themselves.

Market6 Aug 2035

Alan Saldivia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vasco da Gama is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings6 Aug 2035

Marino Hinestroza, 33, rolls back the years — 9.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Cauan Barros has been here 11 seasons

376 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Octávio Silva: 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.” Vasco da Gama have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Nuno Moreira 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 Vasco da Gama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom6 Aug 2035

Vasco da Gama to lose Danilo Lucas for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Danilo Lucas has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Julián Millán signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julián Millán commits to Vasco da Gama for another 2 years.

Match4 Aug 2035

Vasco da Gama leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

In brief