Vinícius Gomes

Goalkeeper - Athletic Club
8 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Vinícius Gomes

11 Edition

The Athletic Club Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Johan Osorio 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 Athletic Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Willian Moreira steps up from the Athletic Club academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Willian Moreira 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.

The dugout

Robert 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.

Squad

The formation has left Johan Osorio behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Athletic Club will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Gian Franco Cabezas gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gian Franco Cabezas is on it.

Squad

Johan Osorio remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Athletic Club would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Athletic Club Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Athletic Club taken apart

0‑7 to Amazonas, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Robert keeps Athletic Club in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout

Vinícius Gomes says Athletic Club 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Athletic Club

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.

Squad

Johan Osorio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Johan Osorio and Athletic Club agree another 1 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Athletic Club

Agustín Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

7 goals as Athletic Club and Amazonas go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Athletic Club and Amazonas, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Johan Osorio 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Breno Pereira

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Breno Pereira, and the manager let it.

In brief