The Juazeirense Sentinel
Squad26 Mar 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Crystian
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juazeirense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Juazeirense
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Juazeirense
Yeferson Quintana 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
A row about effort at Juazeirense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jean Martim was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Titi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Titi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
A door opens for Lucas Zanatelli
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.
In brief
- Market The Kadi question follows Juazeirense around
- Market The shop window has Kadi in it
- The dugout The manager comes out for Gonzalo Avero
- Squad Welcome back, Chefe