Doido

Striker - Horizonte U20
25 Oct 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Doido

21 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Léo out for 83 days

83 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.

Market

Terms done: Tiago Cunha is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ferroviário waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Horizonte is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

19 days out for Doido after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Horizonte will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

At 19, Victor Correia is already the best thing here

An average of 7.06 in a first team he is several years too young for. Horizonte have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Tiago Peixoto attracts admirers

The name of Tiago Peixoto has come up in conversations Horizonte were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

Horizonte rebuffed over Jefferson Sánchez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atlético Goianiense have kept their man, and Horizonte go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Horizonte lose Gabriel Porto

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

The Mateus Santos question follows Horizonte around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mateus Santos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Mateus Santos

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Horizonte would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Léo damages knee ligaments — 90 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 90 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.

Squad

A season's verdict on Victor Correia: the best of his age

Horizonte have a 19-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.

Squad

Doido breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Horizonte turn down CSA for Victor Correia

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tiago Cunha 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Yuri Sena

Horizonte asked and Vitória said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Manauara join the queue for Antônio Fonseca

Add another name to the list: Manauara have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Antônio Fonseca. The answer from Horizonte has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets

Horizonte ask about Cristóbal Castillo

A loan enquiry to Santa Cruz: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Borges

“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.

In brief

19 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Horizonte say no — this time

The offer from Tombense for Tiago Cunha was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A fracture rules Doido out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Horizonte will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Gabriel Rangel 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.

Market

CSA watching Victor Correia

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Horizonte have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Igor Silva

Horizonte asked and GAS said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Horizonte training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luís Nogueira 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.

Boardroom

98% of the income goes out in wages at Horizonte

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Horizonte

Gabriel Mendes 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.

Squad

Rodrygo Andrade makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

  • Market The Igor Cunha talk will not go away
  • Boardroom Open for business: Horizonte enter the window
  • Match Continental football is in reach for Horizonte
18 Edition

The Horizonte Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Mateus Santos scores twice — 8.78

Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Doido breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Horizonte

Luís Nogueira was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nahuel Valiñas

“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.

Match

The half-term report on Horizonte

Position 5, 29 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 92 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Horizonte had all but put away. Sergipe will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Player ratings

The afternoon ran through Luís Correia

Chances created: 12. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.

Match

Mateus Santos rescues a point for Horizonte

It needed Mateus Santos to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Sergipe, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Samuel Machado chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief