The ASA Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 saves: Ravel was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Keliton runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. 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
Brendon gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brendon has just signed for ASA, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sammuel stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sammuel and ASA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at ASA
Keliton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals as ASA and Horizonte go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between ASA and Horizonte, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for ASA against Horizonte
2‑4 to Horizonte, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
ASA promote Paulo Bezerra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulo Bezerra 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: Pedro Rangel joins the ASA first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Rangel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market ASA promote Sérgio Monteiro from within
- Market André Monteiro steps up from the ASA academy
- Player ratings Sammuel was on a different afternoon to everybody else