The Azuriz Chronicle
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Emir Basabe out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Azuriz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Azuriz
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Azuriz are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Rodrygo Cunha was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Xavier 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Azuriz
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Azuriz can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leonardo Figueiredo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonardo Figueiredo and Azuriz agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Wesley Cunha chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Talisson dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match24 Oct 2026
No goals between Azuriz and Monte Azul
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Monte Azul will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Ney
- The dugout A door opens for Edú Azañero
- Squad Rodrygo Cunha makes the position his own