José Neto

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18 Oct 2026
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Marked for José Neto

10 Edition

The Leiria Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Oct 2026

Leiria run riot against Lusitânia Lourosa

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Leiria

Juan Muñoz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Fábio Sousa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Leiria

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Leiria supporters have found a favourite in José Neto

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. José Neto 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 ratings5 Oct 2026

A masterclass from Jair Silva

Marked 8.56 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Jordan van der Gaag runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Marc Baró at his very best

Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leiria.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Pablo Fernández makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Ítalo Pica-Pau
  • Looking ahead Leiria take on the side everybody is chasing
Back issues
2 Edition

The Leiria Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Vinícius Lopes

Leiria asked and Santa Clara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Leiria

Juan Muñoz 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Too dear: Leiria walk away from David Grilo

$130.0K was the most the club would pay and Estrela da Amadora were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Braga join the queue for Eboué Kouassi

Add another name to the list: Braga have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Eboué Kouassi. The answer from Leiria has not changed — yet.

Market10 Aug 2026

Rafael Simoes steps up from the Leiria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rafael Simoes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Bruno Monteiro joins the Leiria first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Monteiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Rafael Machado steps up from the Leiria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rafael Machado has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Famana Quizera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Famana Quizera and Leiria agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ibrahima Guirassy 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