Tomás Almeida

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Lugano
30 Jan 2028
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69 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Nobody could get near Giorgos Koutsias

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad22 Nov 2027

David Von Ballmoos keeps Lugano in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match17 Nov 2027

Lugano through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Zurich, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

A debut Tomás Almeida will not forget — 8.27

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.27 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match17 Nov 2027

Lugano win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 115th minute. Zurich will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Uran Bislimi says Lugano 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.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Lugano

David Von Ballmoos 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.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Tomás Almeida is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

A masterclass from Ahmed Kendouci

Marked 8.85 — 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.

In brief

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61 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match27 Sep 2027

Lugano are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Yanis Cimignani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Lugano

David Von Ballmoos 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.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Diego Mina at Lugano

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Mina is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad27 Sep 2027

A move Tomás Almeida 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. Tomás Almeida is living that version at Lugano, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Lugano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Zanotti is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match25 Sep 2027

Lugano come up short against Grasshopper

Grasshopper left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market27 Sep 2027

Lugano sign Tomás Almeida, one for the future

Tomás Almeida is 18, and Lugano have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Rareş Burnete never got going

5.15 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

57 Edition

The Benfica Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Aug 2027

Nothing got past Clément Lenglet

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 37 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Enzo Barrenechea keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings30 Aug 2027

Nothing got past Enzo Barrenechea

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Benfica

Fredrik Aursnes 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Real improvement from André Gomes at Benfica

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. André Gomes is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market30 Aug 2027

Leandro Barreiro wants more than Benfica are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Player ratings30 Aug 2027

Fredrik Aursnes was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad30 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Amar Dedić

“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 ratings30 Aug 2027

Vangelis Pavlidis in the eights

A performance of 8.84 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief