Simão Neto

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Famalicao U20
2 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Simão Neto

37 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Simão Neto out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Famalicao lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Enzo Barros breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Famalicao

Rodrigo Pinheiro 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.

Squad

Words at Famalicao training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sorriso 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.

Boardroom

Douglas Grolli will join Famalicao for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Douglas Grolli has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Famalicao have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mathis Jangeal

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

Market

The Rodrigo Pinheiro talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Famalicao know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

A door opens for Vinícius Lopes

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Giorgos Koutsias’s exile

4 goals in 11 games at Gil Vicente — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Famalicao updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sorriso is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.62 with 33 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simão Neto

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Famalicao lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Famalicao win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Alverca will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Match

Famalicao finish in position 9

52 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

Enzo Barros breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Gonzalo Pastor asks to leave Famalicao

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Hugo Oliveira is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Famalicao is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Famalicao

Rodrigo Pinheiro 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.

Match

Max Dean sends Famalicao past Alverca

It finished 2‑1, and it was Max Dean’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Famalicao.

In brief

35 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Simão Neto out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Famalicao lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Both of them Max Dean's — 8.68

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Keven Samuel, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout

Gabriel Cabral says Famalicao 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Famalicao

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

Squad

Sorriso 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

Famalicao see off Tondela

Three points for Famalicao, 3‑1 the final word against Tondela in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Pedro Bondo

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

Vinícius Lopes 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sorriso takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

Famalicao run riot against Rio Ave

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

A falling-out at Famalicao

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

Player ratings

Sorriso was on a different afternoon to everybody else

10.00. 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.

Match

Sorriso among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Sorriso on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Famalicao and Rio Ave.

The terraces

One of their own: Max Dean

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Finn van Breemen 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.

Player ratings

Gonzalo Pastor did the work nobody counts — 6.99

10 combined actions and 6.99. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Famalicao lose Simão Neto

29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

  • The dugout A promise honoured for Max Dean
  • The dugout No hiding place for Roméo Beney
  • The dugout The view from the dugout