The Treze Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tomás Álvarez Castillo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ricardinho stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ricardinho and Treze agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Treze
Christian Flores and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Alex Batista joins the Treze first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Batista is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Treze training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Borges is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Willian Silva 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Diogo Vítor question follows Treze around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Diogo Vítor’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Zeca plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Carlos Batista knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Treze, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Treze put Vitor Teixeira up for sale
- Looking ahead An away day at Sousa next for Treze
- The dugout Igor Guilherme keeps his manager's vote