The ABC Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Bruno Leite beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at ABC
Wallyson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
ABC promote Danilo Pereira from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Danilo Pereira 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Douglas Silva joins the ABC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Douglas Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Antônio Martins steps up from the ABC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antônio Martins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thiago Silva joins the ABC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thiago Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Lima
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Tiago Real in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ABC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Match ABC share the spoils with Santa Cruz
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Rodrigo Viana on the draw
- Squad Brunão named player of the week