Robert Cook

Left Wingback - Portuguesa
22 Sep 2038
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Marked for Robert Cook

605 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

1 Mar 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match27 Feb 2038

The wait goes on for Portuguesa

13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match27 Feb 2038

Portuguesa out of the cup

Deportivo La Guaira ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings1 Mar 2038

A debut Robert Cook will not forget — 8.05

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 8.05 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad1 Mar 2038

A one-man rearguard from Javier Bravo

There were 7 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.

Squad1 Mar 2038

Lebogang Mswane has been here 11 seasons

144 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad1 Mar 2038

Tempers go at Portuguesa

Lautaro Lovazzano 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.

The terraces1 Mar 2038

Portuguesa supporters have found a favourite in Robert Cook

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Robert Cook has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings1 Mar 2038

Gabriel Ayala in the eights

A performance of 8.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings1 Mar 2038

Nobody could get near Dylan Montenegro

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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595 Edition

The Portuguesa Gazette

21 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces21 Dec 2037

The mood at Portuguesa has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Carlos Cordova damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Brayan Morales 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 Portuguesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Dec 2037

A move Brandon D'Alegre would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Brandon D'Alegre is living that version at Portuguesa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Lovazzano 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.

Market21 Dec 2037

Zulia are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Portuguesa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief