The Nova Iguaçu Courier
Market31 Jul 2028
Pedro Thomaz 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Nova Iguaçu
Felipinho 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tomás Escobar arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Tomás Escobar has, at Nova Iguaçu, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
No hiding place for Juan Carlos Rolón
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Carlos Rolón, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Víctor Lanosa 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
Nova Iguaçu and Tombense take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Léo Rafael has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nova Iguaçu will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Arthur Neves is still paying for one afternoon at Nova Iguaçu
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Antônio Xavier on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Antônio Xavier after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Matheus Ribeiro speaks
- Market The Felipinho question follows Nova Iguaçu around
- Market Emerson Vagalume joins Nova Iguaçu to strengthen the squad