The Belenenses Chronicle
Match14 Aug 2027
No mercy from Belenenses
AVS will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Belenenses were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A brace, and Lucão takes the afternoon — 8.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lucão provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Leonardo Cá says Belenenses 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
No thanks: Gonçalo Sousa rejects the move
Belenenses had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Porto, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Belenenses
JP Chermont and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Belenenses
5 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
Gonçalo Franco 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Afonso Valente signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Afonso Valente commits to Belenenses for another 3 years.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Door shut on Xavier Biscayzacú
Belenenses asked and Porto said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market Belenenses promote Bernardo Reis from within
- Market Belenenses promote Fernando Tavares from within
- Market Belenenses promote David Martins from within