Faro football star stabbed outside Vilamoura bar

Paul Rees 19 March 2018

One of Faro football club’s first team forwards, Octávio Alexandre Leal Barros, has been stabbed outside a bar in Largo do Cinema, Vilamoura.

The alert was given around 05:15 this morning after the sportsman, known by his nickname Tavinho, or Little Wolf, was stabbed twice, once in the neck.

Hours before the attack, in a highly charged local derby, SC Faro beat Olhão’s team, 2-1, and thus qualified for the play-off to climb to the second league.

Tavinho, aged 24, was rushed to hospital and is in serious condition. The president of the club, António Correia, said that the player is in intensive care "in a very serious situation but considered stable, with a ‘reserved’ prognosis."

Correia said that Tavinho suffered two stab wounds, “one of which was very deep, because it almost reached the lung."

The assault happened after an argument with a man who has been identified and now is being sought by the police.

The pavement outside the bar was spattered with blood. A knife was found in the parking area to the rear of the bar.

Tavinho, from Almancil, is one of SC Faro’s most competent players, having been selected for every game so far this season.

Comments

+1 #5 RG 2018-03-19 22:52

05:15 ?? They really need to close the bars earlier. It will eventually ruin Vilamoura.

+4 #4 ian curtis 2018-03-19 14:18

Vilamoura is so seedy these days.

+3 #3 Ed 2018-03-19 13:52

Quoting Jack Reacher:

Think I'd rather go to Mogadishu.

Here is useful link for tourists wishing to enjoy Mogadishu:
http://visitmogadishu.com/index.php/en/

+3 #2 Jack Reacher 2018-03-19 13:45

As a heavily promoted family tourist destination the Algarve sure does have some abnormal night time activities. Getting stabbed in the neck in Vilamoura or having your fingers chopped off in Albufeira paints a delightful southern European escape. Think I'd rather go to Mogadishu.

+6 #1 marjolein Massis 2018-03-19 13:13

Lets close the bars at 1 o'clock at night. Result: Less drinking hours, less fights, Less noise for the people living around the bars, less need of sleeping pils, less need for police-officers to risk their lives, less cost for the hospitals, less domestic violence Why do we have to wear seat belts to protect our selves and others when bars are aloud to stay open half the night to give people so much extra time to get very very drunk, often get very agressief and do so much harm to so many people in different ways? Only so the bar-owner makes more money?

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