Derlis Orué 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.
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
15 new faces, and Tombense are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Itabaiana in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tombense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
0‑6 to Londrina, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tarcísio is living that version at Tombense, and it tends to show in the first month.
Douglas 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Tombense and Londrina in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tombense will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
0‑5 to CSA, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 15 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A first appearance Daniel Batista will want to forget — 5.54
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.54, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Tombense and Ponte Preta, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Atlético Mineiro will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lucas Souza has pre-agreed a move to Tombense, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tiago Guimarães 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thiago Santos 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. André Fonseca 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.