The Estrela da Amadora Post
Match26 Feb 2028
After 19 games, Estrela da Amadora finally taste it again
The first defeat in 19 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Leixões; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Lovro Zvonarek was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Estrela da Amadora
Bernardo Schappo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A move Diogo Costa 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. Diogo Costa is living that version at Estrela da Amadora, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Renan Ribeiro 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.
Match26 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Estrela da Amadora against Leixões
0‑1 to Leixões, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Odivan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Odivan, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Estrela da Amadora
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Simao Miranda left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Market Estrela da Amadora buy the years ahead of Wassim Guerchi
- Market Estrela da Amadora sign Benjamin Maitre, one for the future
- Market Estrela da Amadora sign Alix Bablée, one for the future