The Ferroviária Post
Squad30 Jul 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gênio
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferroviária lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Jul 2029
6 saves: Vinicius Barreta was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market30 Jul 2029
Nicolas’s move to Criciúma falls through
The deal that would have taken Nicolas to Criciúma has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Ferroviária with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Ferroviária
Fábio Bezerra 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.
Market30 Jul 2029
Vinicius Barreta wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
Belts tighten at Ferroviária
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Mikael Doka falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match28 Jul 2029
The goals have deserted Ferroviária
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ferroviária can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Ferroviária rebuffed over Vinicius Diniz
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cruzeiro have kept their man, and Ferroviária go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Ferroviária against Remo
- Match Ferroviária at the halfway mark
- The dugout The view from the dugout