Tomás Nóbrega

Goalkeeper - Aalesund
22 Apr 2028
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Marked for Tomás Nóbrega

60 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A European night to remember for Aalesund

0‑0 against Metta/LU, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

The wait goes on for Aalesund

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Aalesund

Eirik Holmen 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

Tomás Nóbrega is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Squad

Elias Hagen 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

Rosenborg take the points off Aalesund

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Uba Charles 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.

Player ratings

Anders Klynge was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.37. 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.

Player ratings

Emil Engqvist shuts the door

Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kristian Lonebu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristian Lonebu and Aalesund agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Eirik Holmen 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nikodem Gimiński gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nikodem Gimiński has just signed for Aalesund, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson’s goal not enough for Aalesund

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Sandefjord, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Jan Matoušek 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

A masterclass from Jan Matoušek

Marked 8.26 — 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.

Market

A long bet from Aalesund on Nikodem Gimiński

He is 18, and nobody at Aalesund signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Aalesund sign Tomás Nóbrega, one for the future

Tomás Nóbrega is 19, and Aalesund 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Anders Klynge

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief