The Novorizontino Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Robson Fernandes takes the match ball home
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match4 Aug 2026
Novorizontino tear Amazonas apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Amazonas, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Robson Fernandes, 35, rolls back the years — 9.50
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.50 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Jordi
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Novorizontino — 7.53
1 for Léo Naldi, marked 7.53, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Maykon Jesus runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Tiago Braga joins the Novorizontino first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tiago Braga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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