The Nautico Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Igor Neves 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 Nautico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bicho steps up from the Nautico academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bicho has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Freitas steps up from the Nautico academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Freitas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nautico promote Matheus Amaral from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matheus Amaral has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Fernando Pereira joins the Nautico first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Pereira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Allan Dias 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.
In brief
- Squad No place for Allan Dias in the new shape
- Squad 17 new faces, and Nautico are still learning each other
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Nautico
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ramon