Christopher Ojeda

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Mixto
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

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11 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Francisco is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mixto

Joazi 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.

Squad

Words at Mixto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arthur 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.

Market

Leonardo Viana steps up from the Mixto academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Viana has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Vitor Soares joins the Mixto first team

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

The dugout

Emilio Troncoso 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 Emilio Troncoso trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Italo Mota is the weekend's best young player

At 18 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

The dugout

Marcelo Souza 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.

The dugout

Vinão is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Mixto Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Italo Mota, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Tartá yet — 8.26

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Mixto

Joazi 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.

Squad

Luidy 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 163% of everything Mixto earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match

Italo Mota the difference as Mixto beat Luverdense

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Italo Mota. 2‑0 against Luverdense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luís Pires

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

Squad

15 new faces, and Mixto are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Luís Pires: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Mixto will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief