The Mixto Chronicle
Squad19 Apr 2027
Diego Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Victor Viana: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mixto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Rafael Broetto 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 Mixto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Mixto
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Mixto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Péricles 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A bad afternoon for Mixto against Água Santa
1‑2 to Água Santa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market19 Apr 2027
Mixto promote Samuel Souza from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Souza 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
Fábio Fonseca steps up from the Mixto academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fábio Fonseca has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Apr 2027
One of our own: Paulo Nogueira joins the Mixto first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paulo Nogueira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Miguel Caicedo
- Boardroom 108% of the income goes out in wages at Mixto
- The dugout Vitor Moura: “No excuses”