The Ituano Sentinel
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bruno Mezenga
135 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ituano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Sep 2026
Carlão is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ituano is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market28 Sep 2026
Lipe asks to leave Ituano
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Ituano to lose Luan Souza for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Luan Souza 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Ituano
Neto Berola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Carlão 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Carlão gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Ituano are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match26 Sep 2026
Alason Carioca rescues a point for Ituano
It needed Alason Carioca to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Londrina, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings Osman was unplayable
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Alason Carioca knocks on the manager's door