Andre Castro

Defensive Midfielder - Noah-2
21 Aug 2029
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Marked for Andre Castro

154 Edition

The Noah-2 Sentinel

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Aug 2029

A fracture rules Juliano out for 80 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Noah-2 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match18 Aug 2029

Ararat-2 take the points off Noah-2

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad20 Aug 2029

A row about effort at Noah-2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dylan Mboumbouni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Joshua Muwana 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 Noah-2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Bookings catch up with Soares

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Noah-2 will feel it on Saturday.

The dugout20 Aug 2029

The manager makes an example of Vladislav Kucheiko

“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.

Market20 Aug 2029

The Eric Boakye question follows Noah-2 around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Eric Boakye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout20 Aug 2029

Vincenzo Troise knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vincenzo Troise trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings20 Aug 2029

Soares beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 9. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

Back issues
148 Edition

The Noah-2 Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market9 Jul 2029

Andre Castro puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Noah-2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match7 Jul 2029

Noah-2 cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings9 Jul 2029

Yuri Felipe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match7 Jul 2029

Noah-2 see off Araks Ararat

Three points for Noah-2, 2‑1 the final word against Araks Ararat in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Juliano 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.

Player ratings9 Jul 2029

One of those days for Soares

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad9 Jul 2029

The division's best last weekend was a Noah-2 man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Amarildo was the best thing in any of them.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Vladislav Kucheiko 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.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Noah-2 keep their word to Yuri Felipe

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

145 Edition

The Noah-2 Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Jun 2029

Only the photograph left for Alexey Ploschadny

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Ploschadny will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Noah-2 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings18 Jun 2029

Yuri Felipe goes up and wins it — 7.81

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.81 for the rest of it.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

Andre Castro says Noah-2 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.

Match16 Jun 2029

Noah-2 end the wait against Van

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match16 Jun 2029

Noah-2 find a way past Van

Van made Noah-2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces18 Jun 2029

The crowd has taken to Yuri Felipe

At 23 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.

Squad18 Jun 2029

A row about effort at Noah-2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juliano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match18 Jun 2029

The half-term report on Noah-2

Position 13, 12 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

Soares 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 Noah-2, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief