The Ceará Chronicle
Squad9 Aug 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jesús Jiménez
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ceará lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
Valentín Carboni, 33, rolls back the years — 8.85
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.85 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Valentín Carboni is carrying Ceará
10 goals and a season average of 7.70. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Drogba says Ceará went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Helinho in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ceará this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
Ninety minutes of Isaac Collins Isoa at his very best
Marked 9.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ceará.
Match7 Aug 2038
Isaac Collins Isoa sends Ceará past ABC
It finished 2‑0, and it was Isaac Collins Isoa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ceará.
Match7 Aug 2038
ABC blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. ABC tried to reorganise, Ceará did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
Nobody could get near Wesley Natã
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Boardroom $400.0K lands at Ceará thanks to Kaio Vinícius
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Agustín Palavecino
- Market The shop window has Nicolás Montiel in it