The AVS Gazette
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Tunde runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market16 Aug 2027
Tunde 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 The request is on a desk at AVS, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Bura says AVS 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Mattia Ievoli is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at AVS
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Marwan Ateya
“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.
Market16 Aug 2027
AVS promote Andre Mendes from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andre Mendes 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Daniel Cardoso joins the AVS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Cardoso is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Tiago Nascimento joins the AVS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tiago Nascimento is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Aderllan Santos falls out with a teammate over standards
- Loan watch Davi Schuindt wants to come home
- Match Honours even between AVS and Maritimo