Vitor Pacheco

Left Midfielder - Nautico U18
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
42 Edition

The Nautico Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Nautico

A 0-5 beating by Juventude was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

No end in sight to Nautico's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Nautico has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Vinícius gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • Squad Vitor Pacheco out for 33 days
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Nautico dressing room in a hurry
  • Squad A long afternoon for Muriel
  • Squad Auremir asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
38 Edition

The Nautico Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Fernando Machado comes home

The shirt still fits. Fernando Machado is back at Nautico, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Leozao comes home

The shirt still fits. Leozao is back at Nautico, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Vitor Pacheco is a Nautico player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Luiz Correia comes home

The shirt still fits. Luiz Correia is back at Nautico, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Match

Nautico find a way past Boa

Boa made Nautico work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Reginaldo Lopes

“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.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 12598. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Muriel

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.

Squad

Oluwasegun Otusanya finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Nautico have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

  • Squad Toró finally opens his account
  • Squad Toró has taken the shirt
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Toró