Igor Xavier

Defensive Midfielder - ASA
6 Nov 2026
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Marked for Igor Xavier

9 Edition

The ASA Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

João Jacobs, 19, steals the show — 7.68

Marked 7.68 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to João Jacobs

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match26 Sep 2026

ASA see off Santa Cruz de Natal

Three points for ASA, 1‑0 the final word against Santa Cruz de Natal in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at ASA

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Thiago Cunha has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Thiago Cunha on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad28 Sep 2026

João Jacobs, 19, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where ASA would like this to lead.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Rivaldo is still paying for one afternoon at ASA

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market28 Sep 2026

Sammuel linked with a move away

The name of Sammuel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. ASA say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Réggis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The ASA Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Sep 2026

A hiding for ASA

Beaten 0‑3 by Santa Cruz, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad21 Sep 2026

6 saves: Lucas Bento was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad21 Sep 2026

João Branco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” João Branco commits to ASA for another 3 years.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Lucas Rodrigues

“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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Branquinho out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Branquinho, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom21 Sep 2026

Nobody left the ASA dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Keliton

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Thiago Cunha to a room that had heard them before.

Squad21 Sep 2026

This league is too small for João Branco

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. ASA will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief