The Ceará Chronicle
Squad16 Apr 2029
A fracture rules Micael out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ceará will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Caio Guimarães
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ceará lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at Ceará
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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Ceará
Rafael Ramos 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
Bicho steps up from the Ceará academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bicho 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
Ceará promote Paulo Moura from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulo Moura 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: Douglas Peixoto joins the Ceará first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Douglas Peixoto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Apr 2029
José Alves steps up from the Ceará academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. José Alves 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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
André Luis 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.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Ceará board did not keep
- The dugout Lucca asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout When it matters, Rafael Ramos plays