The Vila Nova Courier
Boardroom21 Apr 2031
Interim Coach is out at Vila Nova
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad21 Apr 2031
A fracture rules Anderson out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vila Nova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom21 Apr 2031
A stranger takes charge at Vila Nova
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Boardroom21 Apr 2031
Interim Coach steps up at Vila Nova for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
William Franco keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vila Nova may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Apr 2031
Juninho Capixaba 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 Vila Nova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Apr 2031
Graduation day at Vila Nova
11 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad21 Apr 2031
A row about effort at Vila Nova
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Caio Suassuna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market21 Apr 2031
Vila Nova promote Luís Borges from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luís Borges 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Samuel Porto joins the Vila Nova first team
- Market One of our own: Tite joins the Vila Nova first team
- Market Sérgio Lima steps up from the Vila Nova academy