Angelo Testa

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
24 Nov 2030
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189 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

11 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Mar 2030

Pacos de Ferreira taken apart

0‑3 to Benfica B, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match11 Mar 2030

Pacos de Ferreira sink to position 16

24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market11 Mar 2030

Patryk Szwedzik hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pacos de Ferreira can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Angelo Testa: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pacos de Ferreira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match9 Mar 2030

4 matches without a win for Pacos de Ferreira

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pacos de Ferreira are no longer polite ones.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Tempers go at Pacos de Ferreira

Patryk Szwedzik 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.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Rafael Barbosa 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.

Boardroom11 Mar 2030

Pacos de Ferreira still without a manager

10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad11 Mar 2030

No hiding place for Tomás Castro

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

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180 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jan 2030

Freddie Woodman breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom7 Jan 2030

The caretaker keeps it: Interim Coach confirmed

A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.

Squad7 Jan 2030

A one-man rearguard from Rafa Oliveira

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market7 Jan 2030

Angelo Testa 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 Pacos de Ferreira, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings7 Jan 2030

Gonçalo Cardoso was immovable

23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad7 Jan 2030

Rafael Barbosa 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.

Squad7 Jan 2030

The manager makes an example of Tomás Sives

“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.

Match5 Jan 2030

Pacos de Ferreira see off Leiria

Three points for Pacos de Ferreira, 1‑0 the final word against Leiria in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings7 Jan 2030

Ninety minutes of Tomás Castro at his very best

Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pacos de Ferreira.

In brief

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160 Edition

The Pacos de Ferreira Chronicle

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Aug 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Oliveira

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

Squad20 Aug 2029

Tomás Castro keeps the receipts

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

Squad20 Aug 2029

Rafael Barbosa 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.

Match18 Aug 2029

Pacos de Ferreira come up short against Moreirense

Moreirense left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Ilann Petrisot 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 Pacos de Ferreira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings20 Aug 2029

Tomás Sives 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 ratings20 Aug 2029

The chances came and went for Diego Fernandes

9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market20 Aug 2029

The Gonçalo Cardoso question follows Pacos de Ferreira around

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

Market20 Aug 2029

Pacos de Ferreira and Ivano Švraka are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief