David Borges

Left Midfielder - Vizela
28 Jan 2029
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74 Edition

The Vizela Herald

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings27 Dec 2027

Miguel Tavares runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match27 Dec 2027

Vizela are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match22 Dec 2027

Vizela out of the cup

Porto ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces27 Dec 2027

A cup hiding at Porto leaves Vizela explaining themselves

0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Squad27 Dec 2027

A one-man rearguard from Antonio Gomis

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad27 Dec 2027

David Borges says Vizela 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.

Squad27 Dec 2027

Antonio Gomis 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 Vizela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match25 Dec 2027

Nobody wins at Vizela

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match25 Dec 2027

Vizela get the job done against Chaves

A 1‑0 win over Chaves, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Vizela training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Yassin Fortuné in the eights
  • Boardroom Doors closed at Vizela
Back issues
55 Edition

The Vizela Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Chiedozie Ogbene

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match14 Aug 2027

Nobody wins at Vizela

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Vizela

Víctor Rofino 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Jan Eicher is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom16 Aug 2027

Graduation day at Vizela

3 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

Chiedozie Ogbene 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

A late step up for Maximiliano Alanís

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market16 Aug 2027

Vizela promote Luis Fonseca from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Fonseca 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.

Market16 Aug 2027

Vizela promote Fernando Pinto from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Pinto 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.

In brief