Denzel

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Marked for Denzel

9 Edition

The Itabirito Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Both of them Thiago Alagoano's — 8.66

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Vinícius Dias keeps Itabirito 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Itabirito make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Itabirito have 3 straight wins of it.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Gabriel Morbeck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Itabirito

Gílson Alves 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Thiago Alagoano the difference as Itabirito beat Operário-MS

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Thiago Alagoano. 2‑1 against Operário-MS, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

One of their own: Denzel

He is 23 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Itabirito are still strangers to each other

13 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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Wrong net for Eduardo

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Itabirito will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Itabirito Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Fidélis yet — 8.18

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ruan was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Itabirito

Gílson Alves 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Fidélis sends Itabirito past Goiatuba

It finished 1‑0, and it was Fidélis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Itabirito.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Itabirito training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Rodrigues 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 dugout21 Sep 2026

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.” Júnior Amaral, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Market21 Sep 2026

The Ruan question follows Itabirito around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ruan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Guto does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Luiz Carlos 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 Luiz Carlos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

4 Edition

The Itabirito Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Itabirito agree a free transfer for Airton

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Itabirito

Denzel 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Luis Campero the difference as Itabirito beat Marcílio Dias

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luis Campero. 1‑0 against Marcílio Dias, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Luís Araujo 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Luis Campero stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.60 on the card, and the Itabirito support went home talking about one name.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Júnior Amaral: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A first senior shirt for Cristiano Borges

Every debut is a small story about the future: Cristiano Borges, 14 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Market24 Aug 2026

The Ruan question follows Itabirito around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ruan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ruan makes the position his own

At 24 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching. Places at Itabirito are won quietly and lost loudly, and this one was won.

In brief