Mika

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Lusitânia Lourosa
28 Oct 2026
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Marked for Mika

13 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Oct 2026

Gonçalo Braga breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Lusitânia Lourosa

André Sousa 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Penafiel

Penafiel left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Number 50 for Mika

50 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

A masterclass from Mika

Marked 8.24 — 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.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Salvador Agra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Lusitânia Lourosa are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Pedro Borges: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

One moment undoes João Vasco

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

7 saves: Brian Araújo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Deadline beats Lusitânia Lourosa to Luís Gomes

The clock did what Estoril Praia would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Match12 Sep 2026

Mika’s goal not enough for Lusitânia Lourosa

Mika scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Maritimo, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Mika

Marked 8.04 — 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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Jefferson Luis

“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 dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Pedro Borges left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Lusitânia Lourosa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Moura 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 dugout14 Sep 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Jefferson Luis

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Looking ahead14 Sep 2026

A test against the best for Lusitânia Lourosa

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Académico de Viseu.

In brief

5 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market31 Aug 2026

Silvério Júnio agrees terms with Oliveirense

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lusitânia Lourosa people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad31 Aug 2026

6 saves: Vitor Hugo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ibrahima Ba

Lusitânia Lourosa asked and Sporting CP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match29 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Lusitânia Lourosa against Portimonense

0‑2 to Portimonense, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Lusitânia Lourosa

9 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 dugout31 Aug 2026

Pedro Borges: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Brian Araújo 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 Brian Araújo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead31 Aug 2026

Fabinho faces his old club

Oliveirense next, and one man in the Lusitânia Lourosa dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

3 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Alexander Bah will not be coming to Lusitânia Lourosa

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Benfica is saying, and nobody at Lusitânia Lourosa is enjoying the guessing.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Mika scores twice — 8.12

Two goals and a mark of 8.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Age has not caught João Silva yet — 7.80

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Too dear: Lusitânia Lourosa walk away from Dominik Prpić

$1.0M was the most the club would pay and Porto were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Salvador Agra 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 Lusitânia Lourosa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Rio Ave tell Lusitânia Lourosa: Julien Lomboto is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Match15 Aug 2026

Lusitânia Lourosa rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Farense had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Aly Palacios runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief