Rodrigo Dias

Defensive Midfielder - Torreense U18
6 Nov 2030
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Marked for Rodrigo Dias

201 Edition

The Torreense Post

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Relegation confirmed for Torreense

The arithmetic is finished and so is the season. A hard summer starts early, and next year’s fixture list will read like a different sport.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Rodrigo Dias damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Pressure builds in the Torreense boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Torreense spell it out for Leonardo Marques

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Leonardo Marques has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

The terraces3 Jun 2030

Supporters organise against the Torreense board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market3 Jun 2030

Junior Mendes puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torreense, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Juan Espina arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Juan Espina has, at Torreense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market3 Jun 2030

Hugo Pérez wants more than Torreense are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Words exchanged at Torreense

Adriel 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.

In brief

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200 Edition

The Torreense Post

27 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 May 2030

Rodrigo Dias damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Squad27 May 2030

Samy gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samy has just signed for Torreense, and for once the answer mattered.

Market27 May 2030

Alfonso Pastor asks to leave Torreense

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad27 May 2030

A falling-out at Torreense

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

Squad27 May 2030

Samy signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samy and Torreense agree another 3 years.

Boardroom27 May 2030

Carlos Peixoto will join Torreense for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Carlos Peixoto has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Torreense have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The dugout27 May 2030

Hugo Pérez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hugo Pérez is on it.

The dugout27 May 2030

Mohamed Ali Diadié knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mohamed Ali Diadié trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout27 May 2030

Torreense keep their word to Rob Stoop

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

199 Edition

The Torreense Post

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad20 May 2030

The knee: Rodrigo Dias out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Torreense lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match20 May 2030

Torreense are in real trouble now

Position 18, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market20 May 2030

Alisson Soares asks to leave Torreense

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad20 May 2030

Tempers go at Torreense

Helder 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.

Squad20 May 2030

Gabriel Mec 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 dugout20 May 2030

The manager makes an example of Thiago Boni

“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.

The dugout20 May 2030

Ricardinho gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ricardinho is on it.

Squad20 May 2030

Junior Mendes wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Torreense have no good answer.

Market20 May 2030

The shop window has Junior Mendes in it

Torreense have let the market know Junior Mendes can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

198 Edition

The Torreense Post

13 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 May 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Dias

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torreense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market13 May 2030

Mikayel Mirzoyan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torreense, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout13 May 2030

Junior Mendes frozen out at Torreense

This is not rotation. Junior Mendes has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Torreense is pretending otherwise.

Market13 May 2030

Alfonso Pastor is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torreense is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad13 May 2030

A falling-out at Torreense

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

Squad13 May 2030

Words at Torreense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Mec 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.

Squad13 May 2030

Chidiebere Nnachi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Chidiebere Nnachi and Torreense agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout13 May 2030

Faiber Mendoza gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Faiber Mendoza is on it.

Market13 May 2030

No place for Lucas França in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lucas França has his answer from Torreense; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

  • The dugout Håkon Tveit is still being punished for one mistake
  • Market The Adriel story refuses to die
  • The dugout Håkon Tveit knocks on the manager’s door