Raphael Guzzo

Defensive Midfielder - Maritimo
28 Mar 2027
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Marked for Raphael Guzzo

16 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Simo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

A brace, and Zé Leite takes the afternoon — 8.97

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zé Leite provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Gonçalo Tabuaço keeps the receipts

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

Squad16 Nov 2026

Maxime Dominguez 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 Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match14 Nov 2026

Zé Leite’s goal not enough for Maritimo

Zé Leite scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Farense, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zé Leite 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Ernando

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

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Goncalo Fonseca faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Goncalo Fonseca after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

The plan did not have a place for Adrián Butzke

Nobody at Maritimo is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

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9 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Maritimo

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

Squad28 Sep 2026

Zé Leite 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Martín Tejón sends Maritimo past Académico de Viseu

It finished 2‑1, and it was Martín Tejón’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Maritimo.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

One of their own: Martín Tejón

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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Adrián Butzke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Martín Tejón at his very best

Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Maritimo.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Zé Leite

Marked 8.31 — 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Maritimo

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Gábor Szalai 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

7 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Samuel Bamba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market14 Sep 2026

Maritimo say no — this time

The offer from Lusitânia Lourosa for Almeida was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Maritimo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martín Tejón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Bryan Limbombe

“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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Paulo Henrique

7.28, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Maritimo had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Goncalo Fonseca on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Goncalo Fonseca after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match12 Sep 2026

Maritimo and Lusitânia Lourosa cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lusitânia Lourosa came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Samuel Bamba asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead14 Sep 2026

Raphael Guzzo goes back to face Vizela

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Raphael Guzzo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maritimo needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

6 Edition

The Maritimo Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Martín Tejón

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 19 signed and 13 gone

That is the business done at Maritimo until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Maritimo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Leite was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match5 Sep 2026

Maritimo come up short against Leixões

Leixões left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Raphael Guzzo 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Almeida attracts admirers

The name of Almeida has come up in conversations Maritimo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

The game went through Bryan Limbombe — 6.55

Marked 6.55 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Goncalo Fonseca answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ruan Bonfim 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 Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief