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Marked for Isaque

10 Edition

The União Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Oct 2026

Chastening afternoon for União

A 0‑6 beating by Central was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Davi Guedes keeps União in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market5 Oct 2026

Jhonnatha hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what União can pretend not to have heard.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for União

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.

Match3 Oct 2026

6 goals as União and Central go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between União and Central, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Doda Alves is slowing down

At 40, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Match3 Oct 2026

3 matches without a goal for União

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Márcio 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages swallow 284% of the União income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

In brief

  • Squad Words exchanged at União
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Isaque
  • Boardroom Nobody left the União dressing room in a hurry
Back issues
8 Edition

The União Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at União

Márcio 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Jardisson 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Isaque stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.34 on the card, and the União support went home talking about one name.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” João Figueiredo chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Match19 Sep 2026

União draw a blank against América de Natal

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

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No place in the plan for Renan

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Fabrizzio Franco remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at União would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Doda Alves makes the position his own

At 40 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching. Places at União are won quietly and lost loudly, and this one was won.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Doda Alves says his piece

“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.

In brief