Marc Schulz

Left Midfielder - Oliveirense
24 May 2037
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552 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

23 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Feb 2037

A fracture rules Laranjeira out for 106 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Oliveirense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad23 Feb 2037

Ricardinho says Oliveirense went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad23 Feb 2037

Tempers go at Oliveirense

João Gonçalves 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.

Squad23 Feb 2037

Raniel 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.

Match21 Feb 2037

Oliveirense find a way past Farense

Farense made Oliveirense work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings23 Feb 2037

Alexandr Bužek in the eights

A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings23 Feb 2037

Nothing got past Christian Frangella

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings23 Feb 2037

A defender's afternoon for Matias Mancuso

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The terraces23 Feb 2037

Everybody has an opinion about João Gonçalves

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

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531 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

29 Sep 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Sep 2036

Henrique Martins damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad29 Sep 2036

Immanuel Hess keeps Oliveirense in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings29 Sep 2036

Age has not caught Tiago Mamede yet — 7.98

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad29 Sep 2036

Tempers go at Oliveirense

João Gonçalves 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.

Squad29 Sep 2036

Kyle Dempsey 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.

Boardroom29 Sep 2036

The Oliveirense debt reaches $65.6M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

In brief

500 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

25 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom25 Feb 2036

Pressure builds in the Oliveirense boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match23 Feb 2036

The wait goes on for Oliveirense

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.

Squad25 Feb 2036

Kyle Dempsey 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 Oliveirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Feb 2036

Eros Maddy 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.

Match23 Feb 2036

Ricardinho’s goal not enough for Oliveirense

Ricardinho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Santa Clara, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad25 Feb 2036

The manager makes an example of Laranjeira

“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.

Player ratings25 Feb 2036

One of those days for Ricardinho

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom25 Feb 2036

108% of the income goes out in wages at Oliveirense

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad25 Feb 2036

Oliveirense keep their word to Afonso Semedo

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

468 Edition

The Oliveirense Courier

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Jul 2035

Raniel breaks a bone — 155 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 155 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Jul 2035

Marcos López damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom16 Jul 2035

Pressure builds in the Oliveirense boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad16 Jul 2035

João Gonçalves 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 Oliveirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Jul 2035

Words at Oliveirense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle Dempsey 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.

Market16 Jul 2035

Eirik Haugan brings the grey hairs Oliveirense lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief