Keven

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Portuguesa
17 Dec 2026
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Marked for Keven

18 Edition

The Portuguesa Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad30 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Keven

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

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Maceió runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match30 Nov 2026

Portuguesa are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 32 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market30 Nov 2026

Portuguesa may not be able to give Eduardo Biazus what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Eduardo Biazus wants continental football; whether Portuguesa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match28 Nov 2026

Portuguesa cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Portuguesa

Maceió 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 Nov 2026

Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Torres 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Igor Torres is carrying Portuguesa

10 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

Wages swallow 152% of the Portuguesa income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Portuguesa Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Nov 2026

Keven damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Maceió was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Match21 Nov 2026

10 unbeaten for Portuguesa

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Portuguesa did not have in the autumn.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Maceió 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 Portuguesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Nov 2026

Portuguesa find a way past Goianésia

Goianésia made Portuguesa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Igor Torres is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Matheus Cadorini

7.78, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Portuguesa had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Matheus Viana has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Matheus Viana on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Paulinho Curuá

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

In brief

16 Edition

The Portuguesa Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

The knee: Keven out for 37 days

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

Squad16 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Portuguesa

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

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Portuguesa

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

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Eduardo Biazus

“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 dugout16 Nov 2026

Matheus Cecchini Muller gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matheus Cecchini Muller is on it.

Market16 Nov 2026

The Igor Torres question follows Portuguesa around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Igor Torres’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The terraces16 Nov 2026

The stands have heard the Maceió talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Portuguesa would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Matheus Cecchini Muller 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 Matheus Cecchini Muller trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market16 Nov 2026

Maceió has been watched

CRB had somebody in the stand with a notebook, and he was not there for the pies. Watching is free; the next step is not.

In brief