The Vitória Gazette
Match15 Apr 2028
16 matches without a win for Vitória
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Vitória are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Age has not caught Emmanuel Martínez yet — 8.11
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Vitória
Renan Lodi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Emmanuel Martínez 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.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Graduation day at Vitória
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.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Fabri runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Apr 2028
Mateus Soares steps up from the Vitória academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateus Soares 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.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Dunga joins the Vitória first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dunga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Samuel Araujo joins the Vitória first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Araujo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Paulo Gomes steps up from the Vitória academy
- Match Vitória share the spoils with Corinthians
- Squad Gabriel Vasconcelos left out for tactical reasons at Vitória