The Alverca Gazette
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Alverca
15 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Alverca throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Estoril Praia the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Alverca will enjoy reviewing.
Market4 Jan 2027
Alverca say no — this time
The offer from Porto for Chiquinho was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Figueiredo takes the afternoon — 8.53
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Figueiredo provided it, and the 8.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Toni Tamarit at Alverca
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Toni Tamarit is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market4 Jan 2027
Paredes join the queue for Toni Tamarit
Add another name to the list: Paredes have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Toni Tamarit. The answer from Alverca has not changed — yet.
Match2 Jan 2027
Alverca come up short against Estoril Praia
Estoril Praia left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Zé Rafael 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Sergi Gómez 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 Alverca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Fábio Cardoso
- The dugout Tamble Monteiro gets it from the manager
- Market Samuel Sousa steps up from the Alverca academy