Enzo

Central Midfielder - Vitória
21 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Enzo

61 Edition

The Vitória Gazette

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Diego Tarzia

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Only the photograph left for Anderson Pato

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anderson Pato will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vitória the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A row about effort at Vitória

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

Squad

A falling-out at Vitória

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Martínez Quarta

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Vitória against Sport Recife

0‑1 to Sport Recife, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch

Davi Barbosa wants to come home

“I did not go to Madura United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vitória and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 34 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Marcelo Cavalcante left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Vitória pick somebody else ahead of Emanuel Brítez

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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60 Edition

The Vitória Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Erick was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Vitória

Gustavo Gómez 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.

Squad

Words at Vitória training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baralhas 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 dugout

No hiding place for Gustavo Gómez

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

Squad

7 new faces, and Vitória 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.

Squad

Lucas Arcanjo wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Market

Vitória sign Enzo, one for the future

Enzo is 19, and Vitória have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

The form table has caught Emanuel Brítez

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marcelo Cavalcante was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Vitória dressing room was either.

In brief