Zeca

Goalkeeper - Horizonte U20
13 Nov 2027
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Marked for Zeca

58 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad6 Sep 2027

Zeca damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words exchanged at Horizonte

Samuel 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Horizonte training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Lima 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Time is catching up with Douglas Dias

Everybody at Horizonte saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

The dugout6 Sep 2027

Fernando Braga gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout6 Sep 2027

Thiago Gomes knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Horizonte, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Aug 2027

Zeca damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings30 Aug 2027

Samuel Lima was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Horizonte

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

Squad30 Aug 2027

Matheus signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matheus and Horizonte agree another 1 years.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Samuel Lima 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.

Match28 Aug 2027

Horizonte come up short against América de Natal

América de Natal left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Júnior Figueiredo frozen out at Horizonte

This is not rotation. Júnior Figueiredo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Horizonte is pretending otherwise.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Thiago Gomes

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

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Rodrygo Mendes: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

56 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Aug 2027

The knee: Zeca out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Horizonte lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Both of them Diego Rangel's — 8.73

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

No sign of nerves from Matheus Henrique at 19 — 7.97

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Matheus Henrique did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Antônio Cunha frozen out at Horizonte

This is not rotation. Antônio Cunha has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Horizonte is pretending otherwise.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Horizonte

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

Match21 Aug 2027

Horizonte get the job done against Lagarto

A 3‑1 win over Lagarto, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Horizonte

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

The terraces23 Aug 2027

Horizonte supporters have found a favourite in Matheus Henrique

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Matheus Henrique has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Horizonte count the cost of losing Bruno Batista

53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief