Dunga

Goalkeeper - Azuriz U18
12 Mar 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Dunga

171 Edition

The Azuriz Chronicle

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Azuriz spell it out for Roberto Santos

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Roberto Santos has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Tiago hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Azuriz can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Weverton frozen out at Azuriz

This is not rotation. Weverton has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Azuriz is pretending otherwise.

Market

Fernando Bracho has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Azuriz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Fernando Bracho signs for Juazeirense while still at Azuriz

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Fernando Bracho has agreed terms with Juazeirense for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Azuriz

Weverton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Azuriz against Cianorte

1‑3 to Cianorte, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

Azuriz cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Thiago Parente

“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

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The Azuriz Chronicle

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

the manager is out at Azuriz

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.

Boardroom

Roberto Santos minds the shop at Azuriz

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Roberto Santos recited it perfectly.

Market

Fabio González 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 Azuriz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Azuriz

Lucyan 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Azuriz

5 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.

Market

Azuriz promote Dunga from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dunga 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.

Market

One of our own: Guilherme Braga joins the Azuriz first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guilherme Braga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Cristiano Queiroz steps up from the Azuriz academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cristiano Queiroz 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.

Boardroom

Azuriz pay $210.1K to end the manager's contract

The bill for the sacking has arrived. the manager leaves with $210.1K for the time left on his deal, and that money buys the club nothing it can put on the pitch.

In brief