The ABC Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 saves: Rodolfo Castro was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Jhosefer runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at ABC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wallyson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at ABC
Tiago Real and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Sep 2026
Atletico Goianiense take the points off ABC
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market14 Sep 2026
ABC promote Gabriel Queiroz from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Queiroz has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Éder Machado joins the ABC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Éder Machado is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
17 new faces, and ABC are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Rodrigo Viana left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout João Pedro gets it from the manager
- The dugout Rodolfo Castro gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Tiago Real does not fit this one