Tomás Maçães

Goalkeeper - Sportist Svoge U20
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Marked for Tomás Maçães

69 Edition

The Sportist Svoge Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Nov 2027

6 saves: Boris Gruev was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad22 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Sportist Svoge

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

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Somebody else is better right now than Ivan Ivanov

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.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Marco Carta

“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.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Stanimir Marcelinho: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Petar Petrov 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.

Market22 Nov 2027

Tomás Maçães is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sportist Svoge has been clear about where Tomás Maçães stands, which is more than many ever get.

Match20 Nov 2027

Point won or two lost for Sportist Svoge?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against CSKA Sofia II? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Kristiyan Kanchev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristiyan Kanchev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
67 Edition

The Sportist Svoge Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces8 Nov 2027

The mood at Sportist Svoge has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom8 Nov 2027

Sportist Svoge spell it out for Stanimir Marcelinho

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Stanimir Marcelinho has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Sportist Svoge

Brinner 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.

Squad8 Nov 2027

A row about effort at Sportist Svoge

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

Squad8 Nov 2027

The month belongs to Yuri

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Sportist Svoge have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Squad8 Nov 2027

A place in the month's best eleven for Harmony Okwumo

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Harmony Okwumo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sportist Svoge have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

The manager's exit leaves Brinner exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Brinner is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

Boardroom8 Nov 2027

Belts tighten at Sportist Svoge

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

No hiding place for Saba Nioradze

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

In brief

41 Edition

The Sportist Svoge Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout10 May 2027

Tomás Maçães says Sportist Svoge went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad10 May 2027

A falling-out at Sportist Svoge

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

Squad10 May 2027

Fabrício Isidoro is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad10 May 2027

A row about effort at Sportist Svoge

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

The dugout10 May 2027

No hiding place for Dimitar Ivanov

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

The dugout10 May 2027

Atanas Kilov is still paying for one afternoon at Sportist Svoge

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

40 Edition

The Sportist Svoge Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 May 2027

Stanimir Marcelinho has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Sportist Svoge can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad3 May 2027

Brinner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brinner commits to Sportist Svoge for another 2 years.

Squad3 May 2027

Brinner 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 Sportist Svoge this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 May 2027

Petar Petrov 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.

The dugout3 May 2027

Petar Petrov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom3 May 2027

Wages eat 108% of everything Sportist Svoge earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market3 May 2027

Sportist Svoge and Kostadin Iliev are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout3 May 2027

Brinner loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Brinner's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Squad3 May 2027

Dimitar Ivanov has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Sportist Svoge will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief