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105 Edition

The Nova Iguaçu Courier

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match29 Jul 2028

Still nobody has beaten Nova Iguaçu

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match29 Jul 2028

6 matches without a win for Nova Iguaçu

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Nova Iguaçu are no longer polite ones.

Match29 Jul 2028

6 matches without a goal for Nova Iguaçu

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market31 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Lucas Cirilo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Cirilo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nova Iguaçu the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

Nova Iguaçu to lose Lucas Cirilo for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Lucas Cirilo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market31 Jul 2028

Nova Iguaçu turn down Persis for Santiago Correa

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Nova Iguaçu

Xandinho 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 ratings31 Jul 2028

Bahiano Farías beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market31 Jul 2028

Bentonit Ijevan join the queue for Fábio Correia

Add another name to the list: Bentonit Ijevan have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fábio Correia. The answer from Nova Iguaçu has not changed — yet.

In brief

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43 Edition

The Nova Iguaçu Courier

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 May 2027

The small margins put Nova Iguaçu out

Out, 0‑0 to América de Natal, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match22 May 2027

Still nobody has beaten Nova Iguaçu

The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad24 May 2027

Lucas Soto decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

The dugout24 May 2027

Lucas Cirilo says Nova Iguaçu 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.

Player ratings24 May 2027

Lucas Cruz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad24 May 2027

A falling-out at Nova Iguaçu

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

The terraces24 May 2027

One of their own: Léo Maia

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.

Match22 May 2027

Léo Maia the difference as Nova Iguaçu beat Retrô

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

Squad24 May 2027

A row about effort at Nova Iguaçu

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

In brief

  • Player ratings A masterclass from Léo Maia
  • Player ratings Bill misses from twelve yards
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
36 Edition

The Nova Iguaçu Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market5 Apr 2027

Vinicius Charopem has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nova Iguaçu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad5 Apr 2027

An unwelcome headline for Arthur Neves

He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Nova Iguaçu

Carlos Servín 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.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Léo Maia 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.

Market5 Apr 2027

Matheus Matias told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Matheus Matias has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Nova Iguaçu.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The armband comes off Pedro Thomaz

Nova Iguaçu will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

27 Edition

The Nova Iguaçu Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Hands off: RFC Liege circle Mateus Souza

Nova Iguaçu have received the call every well-run club eventually receives — somebody bigger has noticed Mateus Souza. Saying no is easy; keeping him convinced is the actual work.

Market1 Feb 2027

Nova Iguaçu turn down FCI Levadia for Alegria

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Carlos Servín 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 Nova Iguaçu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Nova Iguaçu

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

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Adriano has seen enough of Santa Cruz

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Nova Iguaçu, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Nova Iguaçu have started building around Léo Maia

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Luan Capanni

“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.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

Leonardo David 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 Leonardo David is on it.

Market1 Feb 2027

The Lucas Cruz question follows Nova Iguaçu around

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

In brief