Andre Mendes

Left Forward - Vitoria Guimaraes
24 Apr 2029
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Marked for Andre Mendes

143 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Apr 2029

13 unbeaten for Vitoria Guimaraes

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Vitoria Guimaraes did not have in the autumn.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

Tiago Simões keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vitoria Guimaraes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings23 Apr 2029

Vintage Samu — 8.03

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.03, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match21 Apr 2029

Vitoria Guimaraes make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings23 Apr 2029

A defender's goal wins it for Vitoria Guimaraes — 7.61

1 for Alison Calegari, marked 7.61, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Words exchanged at Vitoria Guimaraes

João Mendes 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.

Match21 Apr 2029

Samu the difference as Vitoria Guimaraes beat Arouca

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Samu. 3‑1 against Arouca, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Marco Cruz 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.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

Rodrigo Duarte gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
142 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match14 Apr 2029

12 unbeaten for Vitoria Guimaraes

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Vitoria Guimaraes did not have in the autumn.

Market16 Apr 2029

Óscar Rivas has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vitoria Guimaraes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match14 Apr 2029

Andre Mendes sends Vitoria Guimaraes past Gil Vicente

It finished 3‑1, and it was Andre Mendes’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vitoria Guimaraes.

Squad16 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Vitoria Guimaraes

Marco Cruz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces16 Apr 2029

One of their own: Patrick Ouotro

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match14 Apr 2029

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Vitoria Guimaraes. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Player ratings16 Apr 2029

Ninety minutes of Patrick Ouotro at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vitoria Guimaraes.

Player ratings16 Apr 2029

A masterclass from Miguel Nogueira

Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout16 Apr 2029

The manager makes an example of Marco Cruz

“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.

In brief

56 Edition

The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Vitoria Guimaraes rebuffed over Maximiliano Araújo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Vitoria Guimaraes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market23 Aug 2027

Terms done: Matija Mitrović is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Portimonense waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vitoria Guimaraes is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Kevyn Vinícius breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

An offer of $9.1M for Alfonso Trezza

Vitoria Guimaraes have gone to Arouca with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Samuel Soares

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Soares, and the manager let it.

Match21 Aug 2027

Famalicao take the points off Vitoria Guimaraes

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market23 Aug 2027

Kevyn Vinícius attracts admirers

The name of Kevyn Vinícius has come up in conversations Vitoria Guimaraes were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market23 Aug 2027

Vitoria Guimaraes and Beni Mukendi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Samuel Soares is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief