Héctor Vázquez

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Process

Marked for Héctor Vázquez

83 Edition

The AVS Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Deandre Kerr puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AVS, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A fracture rules Diogo Santos out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AVS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at AVS

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

Match

AVS come up short against Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

Allan Sousa 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.

The dugout

Roni is still paying for one afternoon at AVS

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Leonardo Borges answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Roni gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. AVS lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Squad

Héctor Vázquez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Héctor Vázquez and AVS agree another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
82 Edition

The AVS Gazette

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

28 days out for Diogo Santos after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AVS will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

At last: AVS win one

8 matches without a win, and then this, against Oliveirense. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Tempers go at AVS

Daniel Rivas 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.

Match

Allan Sousa sends AVS past Oliveirense

It finished 2‑0, and it was Allan Sousa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AVS.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Da Conceição

Marked 8.18 — 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Allan Sousa

Marked 8.16 — 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.

Player ratings

Deandre Kerr in the eights

A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Jorge Meireles was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

Market

AVS sign Héctor Vázquez, one for the future

Héctor Vázquez is 20, and AVS 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.

In brief