The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes say no — this time
The offer from Huesca for Juan Diego Castillo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vitoria Guimaraes
Samu 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
João Mendes runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Vitoria Guimaraes
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Beni Mukendi 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vitoria Guimaraes promote Leonardo Neves from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leonardo Neves 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
David Castro steps up from the Vitoria Guimaraes academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Castro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Goncalo Almeida joins the Vitoria Guimaraes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Goncalo Almeida is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Abascal was immovable
19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
In brief
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Beni Mukendi's mistake
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Óscar Rivas
- Squad The manager makes an example of Oumar Camara