The Portuguesa Gazette
Match6 Nov 2026
A European night to forget for Portuguesa
0‑3. Palmeiras play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Reyes stands alone
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match6 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Portuguesa
5 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Portuguesa lose Andres Castillo
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Álbaro Polo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Álbaro Polo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Portuguesa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match6 Nov 2026
Portuguesa cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Portuguesa
Johan Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Óscar González 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Christian Flores
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Flores, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Portuguesa dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout Carlos Ramirez answers for it
- Player ratings A costly moment from Rubén Rojas