The Famalicao Chronicle
Squad27 Mar 2028
Dany Mota breaks a bone — 129 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Famalicao
Luis Milla and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad27 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Famalicao
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Realpe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Famalicao lose Bernardo Ribeiro
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Paulo Moreira
“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.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
The goals keep arriving from Rudi Almeida’s exile
10 goals in 25 games at Leiria — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Famalicao updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
9 goals on loan for Umar Abubakar
26 appearances at Samsunspor and the goals keep coming. Famalicao are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Leonardo Realpe 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 Leonardo Realpe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
The goals keep arriving from Roméo Beney’s exile
8 goals in 18 games at Belenenses — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Famalicao updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
In brief
- Looking ahead Paulo Moreira faces his old club
- The dugout Otso Liimatta gets picked when it counts
- Market The shop window has Leonardo Realpe in it