The ABC Sentinel
Squad13 Oct 2031
The knee: Igor Bahia out for 104 days
104 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. ABC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
Brunão: 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.” ABC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Lucas Souza 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
No hiding place for Zabarelli
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zabarelli, and the manager let it.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Wellington Carvalho 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.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
Rodolfo Castro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at ABC 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.
In brief
- Market The Bruno Leite story refuses to die
- Squad A season on the outside for Ignacio Segovia
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Lucas Souza