Tomás Maçães

Goalkeeper - Dobrudzha
18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Tomás Maçães

23 Edition

The Dobrudzha Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Dobrudzha

24 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.

Squad

8 saves: Georgi Argilashki was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

Tomás Maçães says Dobrudzha 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.

Transfer targets

Viktoria Plzen tell Dobrudzha: David Látal is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Levski take the points off Dobrudzha

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Matheus Leoni makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

Vasil Paskov: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

A falling-out at Dobrudzha

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

Transfer targets

Dobrudzha ask about Illia Olkhovyi

A loan enquiry to Dynamo Kyiv: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Dobrudzha Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

16 matches without a win for Dobrudzha

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Dobrudzha are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Tomás Maçães keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Dobrudzha

Matheus Leoni 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.

Player ratings

Tommaso Ghirardello beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Dobrudzha come up short against Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Lokomotiv Plovdiv left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Dobrudzha promote Lachezar Dyakov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lachezar Dyakov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

Malick Fall 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.

Squad

Di Mateo Lovrić 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.

Match

Halfway: Dobrudzha sit in position 16

4 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

In brief

8 Edition

The Dobrudzha Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Dobrudzha taken apart

1‑5 to Levski, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

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

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

Squad

Plamen Pepelyashev keeps Dobrudzha in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Matheus Leoni 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 Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Dobrudzha and Levski in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Dobrudzha dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑5 defeat, delivered by Vasil Paskov to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

“I want to play”: Tommaso Ghirardello speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Squad

Mihail Mihaylov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mihail Mihaylov and Dobrudzha agree another 3 years.

In brief