Adrián Cáceres

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Boa
31 Jan 2030
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The Boa Sentinel

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Boa's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Boa has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The cup run ends for Boa

1‑2 against Fluminense, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Lucas Toffoletti keeps Boa 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.

Squad

Konrad Graulund: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Boa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Boa

Wallace Oliveira 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 ratings

Thiago Henrique in the eights

A performance of 8.67 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Lucas Toffoletti

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Marcelinho

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Marcelinho rescues a point for Boa

It needed Marcelinho to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Paysandu, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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The Universitario Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Fernando Gaibor has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Tempers go at Universitario

Alex Valera 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 ratings

Yuriel Celi 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.

Squad

Anderson Santamaría signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anderson Santamaría and Universitario agree another 2 years.

Match

Universitario come up short against Alianza Atletico

Alianza Atletico left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Jairo Concha in the eights

A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom

Inquest at Universitario

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Alex Valera leaves them behind him

Shots: 12. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Squad

Miguel Silveira 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.

In brief