The Horizonte Chronicle
Market4 Jan 2027
César Assis puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Horizonte, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vinícius Araujo is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Horizonte will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Paulista says Horizonte 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gui Amorim is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Horizonte rebuffed over Lukas Zuccarello
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vasco da Gama have kept their man, and Horizonte go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gui Amorim 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Fernando Teixeira 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 Horizonte this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
$272.0K on the table at Horizonte
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Fernando Teixeira is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
- Market A loan that did nothing for Guilherme Rangel
- The dugout Zéca gets it from the manager
- Market The shop window has Guilherme Rangel in it