The Ceará Chronicle
Market2 Nov 2026
Renzo López 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 Ceará can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Lenny Lobato runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Home is on Renzo López's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ceará are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Ceará
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ceará can tell you which week it ends in.
Match27 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Ceará against São Paulo
0‑2 to São Paulo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Renzo López
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match31 Oct 2026
Santos take the points off Ceará
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Antônio Lima: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Matheus Araújo turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Ceará deserved better, and so did he.
In brief
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Giulio
- Squad Vinicius Zanocelo loses the armband
- Squad A promotion for Nicolás Ferreira