The Amazonas Gazette
Squad17 Mar 2031
The knee: Júnior Cavalcante out for 29 days
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Amazonas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market17 Mar 2031
Pedro Costa is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Amazonas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Words exchanged at Amazonas
João Pedro 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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Words at Amazonas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Belém 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.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
Lucas André knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Amazonas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
No hiding place for Kaylan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kaylan, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
When it matters, Luciano Martins plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market17 Mar 2031
The Erick story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Erick signs something — a contract at Amazonas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad17 Mar 2031
João Pedro has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Amazonas that is a harder question to answer.
In brief
- Market Amazonas and Augusto are talking past each other
- The dugout A door opens for Lucas Serafini
- Market Athletico Paranaense send scouts to watch Xavier