Lusitânia Lourosa

Portuguese Second Liga
3 Jan 2027
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22 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Vitor Hugo keeps Lusitânia Lourosa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Lusitânia Lourosa

Rafael Gladiador 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lusitânia Lourosa against Sporting CP B

0‑1 to Sporting CP B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Lusitânia Lourosa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Collard 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 dugout

No hiding place for Bruno

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

Match

Halfway: Lusitânia Lourosa sit in position 15

15 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

The dugout

Lucas Marques answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Vitor Hugo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vitor Hugo is on it.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Gonçalo Braga

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.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Gabriel Melo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Flávio Gonçalves

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Dylan Collard 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.

Squad

5 new faces, and Lusitânia Lourosa 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Landinho

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

The dugout

Lucas Marques on the point

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

The dugout

Dylan Collard has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lusitânia Lourosa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Gonçalo Braga

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa draw a blank against Felgueiras

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Felgueiras defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

20 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Romarinho, 35, rolls back the years — 7.96

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Vitor Hugo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Vitor Hugo and Lusitânia Lourosa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa find a way past Feirense

Feirense made Lusitânia Lourosa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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 ratings

Flávio Gonçalves beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Lusitânia Lourosa

Juan Pablo Vásquez 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Lucas Marques, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of João Silva

“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.

Market

Lusitânia Lourosa and João Miguel are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

19 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Vizela the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Lusitânia Lourosa will enjoy reviewing.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa are in real trouble now

Position 16, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Vitor Hugo keeps Lusitânia Lourosa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Romarinho yet — 8.37

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.37 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout

Iuri Moreira says Lusitânia Lourosa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Vizela

Vizela left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lusitânia Lourosa

Gabriel Melo 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

Dylan Collard 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 ratings

A masterclass from Rui Pedro

Marked 8.02 — 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.

In brief

18 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa strike at the death to beat Leixões

There were 89 minutes on the clock and Leixões had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Lusitânia Lourosa did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings

Both of them Arsénio's — 8.15

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Flávio Gonçalves, 19, steals the show — 7.65

Marked 7.65 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Romarinho 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.

Match

Arsénio the difference as Lusitânia Lourosa beat Leixões

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arsénio. 3‑2 against Leixões, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

Lusitânia Lourosa supporters have found a favourite in Flávio Gonçalves

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Flávio Gonçalves 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Jaiminho at his very best

Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lusitânia Lourosa.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gladwin Shitolo

“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.

Squad

Dylan Collard 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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Lusitânia Lourosa

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Torreense

Torreense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

Lusitânia Lourosa are still strangers to each other

7 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 dugout

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 0‑1 Lucas Marques left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

The formation has left Bura behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Lusitânia Lourosa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Experience through the door at Lusitânia Lourosa

Bura arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Player ratings

Jaiminho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. 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.

The dugout

Dylan Collard gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dylan Collard is on it.

In brief

16 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

Words at Lusitânia Lourosa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jelani Trevisan 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Fabinho

“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.

Squad

No place for Landinho in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lusitânia Lourosa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Arsénio gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Arsénio is on it.

Market

Lusitânia Lourosa and João Miguel are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Competition arrives for Bruno

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Lusitânia Lourosa have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

The dugout

The manager makes Juan Pablo Vásquez a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Lusitânia Lourosa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Ricardo Moura placed on the list

Lusitânia Lourosa have made Ricardo Moura available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

15 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Jaiminho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 35. 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.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa sink to position 16

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lusitânia Lourosa

Rafael Gladiador 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

João Silva signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” João Silva commits to Lusitânia Lourosa for another 2 years.

Player ratings

Dylan Collard takes the honours

Marked 7.35 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Lusitânia Lourosa had the best player on the pitch.

Market

Still no ink between Lusitânia Lourosa and Jaiminho

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lusitânia Lourosa, another week without a signature from Jaiminho.

Squad

Miguel Teixeira 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.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Lucas Marques on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Rafael Brito suspended

One booking too many, and Rafael Brito sits out. Lusitânia Lourosa lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

14 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Vitor Hugo keeps Lusitânia Lourosa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa out of the cup

Benfica ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Romarinho, 35, rolls back the years — 7.89

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.89 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Gladwin Shitolo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gladwin Shitolo and Lusitânia Lourosa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Romarinho’s goal not enough for Lusitânia Lourosa

Romarinho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Chaves, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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 ratings

Jaiminho beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Melo

“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.

Market

Still no ink between Lusitânia Lourosa and Rafael Brito

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lusitânia Lourosa, another week without a signature from Rafael Brito.

In brief

13 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Gabriel Melo 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.

Match

Rui Pedro the difference as Lusitânia Lourosa beat Benfica B

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rui Pedro. 1‑0 against Benfica B, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Rafael Gladiador

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Rui Pedro

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

Squad

12 new faces, and Lusitânia Lourosa 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Paulité

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Lucas Marques has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Lucas Marques on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Dylan Collard

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

12 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Vitor Hugo stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Leiria punish Lusitânia Lourosa for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Romarinho will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Lusitânia Lourosa escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

Both of them Romarinho's — 9.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Rafael Gladiador says Lusitânia Lourosa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

4 matches without a win for Lusitânia Lourosa

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lusitânia Lourosa are no longer polite ones.

Match

Romarinho’s goal not enough for Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

A falling-out at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

Dylan Collard 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

Tiago Dias signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tiago Dias and Lusitânia Lourosa agree another 4 years.

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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.

Squad

Lusitânia Lourosa lose Juan Pablo Vásquez

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Lusitânia Lourosa

Something was said to Flávio Gonçalves and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

No hiding place for Iuri Moreira

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

In brief

  • Looking ahead Jaiminho faces his old club
  • The dugout When it matters, Arsénio plays
  • The dugout A door opens for Fabinho
  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Leiria
10 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Vitor Hugo

There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Gabriel Melo in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Pacos de Ferreira

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

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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.

Squad

Training ground row involving Gabriel Melo

Tempers went at Lusitânia Lourosa this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.

The dugout

Jelani Trevisan 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

Lucas Marques answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Jaiminho beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

When it matters, Gonçalo Braga plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Lusitânia Lourosa

0‑5 against Académico de Viseu, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Gabriel Melo 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.

The dugout

Bruno 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Lusitânia Lourosa

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lusitânia Lourosa

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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑5 defeat, delivered by Lucas Marques to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Beaten 5 times: a bad day for Vitor Hugo

5 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.

Squad

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Looking ahead

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 Pacos de Ferreira.

In brief

8 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa march on in the cup

Oliveirense are out and Lusitânia Lourosa go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Vitor Hugo stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Paulité runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Arsénio yet — 7.87

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Dylan Collard goes up and wins it — 7.83

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.83 for the rest of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Squad

200 appearances for Luís Rocha

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa refuse to lose to Maritimo

A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

7 Edition

The Lusitânia Lourosa Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Flávio Gonçalves at 19 — 7.99

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Flávio Gonçalves did not need any: 7.99, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Dylan Collard puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lusitânia Lourosa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

No deal for Lucas De Bolle at that price

Lusitânia Lourosa offered $180.0K; Portimonense said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Flávio Gonçalves

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Flávio Gonçalves sends Lusitânia Lourosa past Oliveirense

It finished 1‑0, and it was Flávio Gonçalves’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lusitânia Lourosa.

Squad

Jelani Trevisan 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 ratings

Aly Palacios was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

No place for Bruno in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lusitânia Lourosa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

A satisfied Lucas Marques

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Lucas Marques could afford to be generous.

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Market

João Vasco asks to leave Lusitânia Lourosa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 22 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Lusitânia Lourosa 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Lusitânia Lourosa walk away from Renan

$230.0K was the most the club would pay and Famalicao 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Lusitânia Lourosa

Gabriel Melo 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.

The dugout

Gabriel Melo 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.

Squad

No place for Jelani Trevisan in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lusitânia Lourosa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

Paulité slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Paulité is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

Looking ahead

Jaiminho goes back to face Oliveirense

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

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Market

Lusitânia Lourosa get their man

The chase for Jelani Trevisan ended with $1.3M changing hands and Benfica out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets

Tondela tell Lusitânia Lourosa: Rony Lopes 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.

Boardroom

Lusitânia Lourosa go back to the board over Lucas De Bolle

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $182.0K — a club that wants Lucas De Bolle enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Lusitânia Lourosa bid $220.0K for Renan

The offer went to Famalicao this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

An offer of $170.0K for Lucas De Bolle

Lusitânia Lourosa have gone to Portimonense with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Portimonense

Portimonense left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Lusitânia Lourosa

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Paulité

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

Squad

Rafael Brito is a square peg at Lusitânia Lourosa

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

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Transfer targets

$1.3M settles it between the clubs for Jelani Trevisan

Benfica have accepted the money. What Lusitânia Lourosa do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Boardroom

Lusitânia Lourosa go back to the board over Jelani Trevisan

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.4M — a club that wants Jelani Trevisan enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lusitânia Lourosa

Romarinho 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Lusitânia Lourosa walk away from Gabriel Cabral

$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Famalicao 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.

Match

Rui Pedro’s goal not enough for Lusitânia Lourosa

Rui Pedro scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Porto B, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Transfer targets

Sporting CP tell Lusitânia Lourosa: Amaury Torralvo 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.

Squad

No place for Romarinho in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lusitânia Lourosa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Lusitânia Lourosa and Rafael Brito are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Lucas Marques to a room that had heard them before.

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Boardroom

Lusitânia Lourosa go back to the board over Gabriel Cabral

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $125.1K — a club that wants Gabriel Cabral enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Lusitânia Lourosa make their move for Gabriel Cabral

$120.0K on the table at Famalicao. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Business is business: Josué Sá goes

Maritimo paid $190.0K and Lusitânia Lourosa took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mathias De Amorim

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Lusitânia Lourosa

Gabriel Melo 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.

Match

Lusitânia Lourosa come up short against Farense

Farense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Lucas Marques to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Words at Lusitânia Lourosa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Collard 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.

Player ratings

João Vasco runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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Market

Josué Sá agrees terms with Maritimo

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.

Transfer targets

Flávio Gonçalves due for a Lusitânia Lourosa medical

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

Squad

Gabriel Melo 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.

Market

Miguel Costa steps up from the Lusitânia Lourosa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miguel Costa 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

Marco Mendes steps up from the Lusitânia Lourosa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marco Mendes 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

Lusitânia Lourosa promote Francisco Conceicao from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Francisco Conceicao has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Iuri Moreira stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Iuri Moreira and Lusitânia Lourosa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Rafael Gladiador is a square peg at Lusitânia Lourosa

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Iuri Moreira

“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.

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Squad

Paulité signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulité commits to Lusitânia Lourosa for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Lusitânia Lourosa

Paulité 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.

Market

Eyes on Gabriel Souza again

The phone has started ringing about Gabriel Souza again, and this time the name on the line is Santa Clara. Lusitânia Lourosa are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

No place for Rui Pedro in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lusitânia Lourosa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Transfer targets

Lusitânia Lourosa ask about Jozhua Vertrouwd

A loan enquiry to Rayo Vallecano: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Lusitânia Lourosa ask about Flávio Gonçalves

A loan enquiry to Sporting CP: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

A long bet from Lusitânia Lourosa on Gabriel Melo

He is 20, and nobody at Lusitânia Lourosa signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

5 new faces, and Lusitânia Lourosa 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.

Market

Still no ink between Lusitânia Lourosa and Gabriel Melo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lusitânia Lourosa, another week without a signature from Gabriel Melo.

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