The CSA Herald
Match8 Aug 2026
No mercy from CSA
Confiança will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. CSA were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Lucas Taylor scores twice — 8.18
Two goals and a mark of 8.18 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tony Batista arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Tony Batista has, at CSA, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Pepeu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zeca signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zeca commits to CSA for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at CSA
Camacho 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about CSA and Confiança in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at CSA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hugo Borges is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
CSA promote Cobra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cobra 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Bruno Rocha joins the CSA first team
- Market One of our own: Brabo joins the CSA first team
- Market Diego Barbosa steps up from the CSA academy