The Ituano Sentinel
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Lucas Stefanello says Ituano went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Vintage Lucas Ramon — 7.80
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match17 Apr 2027
At last: Ituano win one
8 matches without a win, and then this, against Figueirense. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Nobody could get near John Kennedy
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Ituano tie Tiago Braga down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Ituano
Fernando Viana 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.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ituano
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Ituano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. John Kennedy 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 terraces19 Apr 2027
The crowd has taken to Gabriel Razera
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Igor Batista steps up from the Ituano academy
- Market Ituano promote André Fonseca from within
- Market Ituano promote Danilo Alves from within