The Novorizontino Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Pedro Balotelli is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Leixões waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Novorizontino is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Luís Oyama delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Luís Oyama scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market10 Aug 2026
Novorizontino say no — this time
The offer from Nomme Kalju for Matias Ludueña was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Novorizontino
Patrick 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Novorizontino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Oyama was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Aug 2026
Caio Dantas’s goal not enough for Novorizontino
Caio Dantas scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Criciúma, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Henrique Souza joins the Novorizontino first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henrique Souza is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Novorizontino promote Daniel Monteiro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Monteiro 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.
Match4 Aug 2026
Luís Oyama sends Novorizontino past Amazonas
It finished 1‑0, and it was Luís Oyama’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Novorizontino.
In brief
- Player ratings Rômulo ran the game
- The dugout Luiz Moreira: “No excuses”
- The dugout No hiding place for Jordi