Ivanzinho

Central Defender - Trem
9 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ivanzinho

19 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

João Vitor 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 Trem can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

João Vitor frozen out at Trem

This is not rotation. João Vitor has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Trem is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Trem

Eliandro 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

Trem ask about Leonardo Xavier

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

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Rodriguinho

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Rodriguinho has come out of that comparison in the side, and Trem have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

Tiago González, 20, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Trem would like this to lead.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Príncipe

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Trem told Príncipe something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Boardroom

Open for business: Trem enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

The dugout

Marcos Cavalcante knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Trem, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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18 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Tiago González, 20, steals the show — 8.66

Marked 8.66 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Emerson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Pepê 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 Trem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Trem count the cost of losing Shen Zhan

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

A row about effort at Trem

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

Match

Tiago González the difference as Trem beat Parnahyba

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tiago González. 2‑1 against Parnahyba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

160% of the income goes out in wages at Trem

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Rodriguinho

At 21 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

Trem end the wait against Parnahyba

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

In brief

7 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Emerson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Trem

Eliandro 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.

Market

Trem promote Marcelo Soares from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Soares 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pepê

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

Squad

No place for Rodriguinho in the new shape

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ivanzinho

A mark of 7.38, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

Rafael Alves on the point

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

Match

Trem and Iguatu cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Iguatu came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Squad

Tiago González, 20, gets his chance

Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 20. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.

In brief