The Académico de Viseu Chronicle
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Académico de Viseu do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Académico de Viseu
Soufiane Messeguem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Matheus Sampaio at Académico de Viseu
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matheus Sampaio is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lorougnon Gohi 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Dominik Steczyk sends Académico de Viseu past Maritimo
It finished 3‑1, and it was Dominik Steczyk’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Académico de Viseu.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Juan Soriano
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Soriano, and the manager let it.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
One of their own: Vasilis Bratsiotis
He is 21 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Dominik Steczyk
Marked 8.08 — 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
104% of the income goes out in wages at Académico de Viseu
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Squad Académico de Viseu are still strangers to each other
- Player ratings Lorougnon Gohi runs at them all day
- The dugout The view from the dugout