Joe Hodge

Defensive Midfielder - Tondela
11 Nov 2026
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Marked for Joe Hodge

15 Edition

The Tondela Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Nov 2026

João Lima breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match5 Nov 2026

Tondela do the business in Europe

2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Tondela came through the finding-out well against Napredak.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Rony Lopes 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 Tondela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Makan Aïko 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.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Joe Hodge

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces9 Nov 2026

Tondela supporters have found a favourite in Christian Marques

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Christian Marques 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.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Rony Lopes

“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.

Match8 Nov 2026

Braga take the points off Tondela

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Rony Lopes was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.33. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Tondela Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match15 Aug 2026

Tondela run riot against Rio Ave

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Makan Aïko

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Tondela go back to the board over Nehuén Pérez

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $14.3M — a club that wants Nehuén Pérez enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

João Morelli due for a Tondela medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

1 academy graduates step up at Tondela

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Tondela training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Makan Aïko 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Jordan Holsgrove

Tondela asked and Estoril Praia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

One of their own: Hugo Félix

He is 22 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Bruno Fonseca joins the Tondela first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Fonseca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Joe Hodge at his very best
  • The dugout Rony Lopes gets it from the manager
  • Squad Tempers go at Tondela