Tanque

Right Midfielder - Aparecidense U18
8 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tanque

142 Edition

The Aparecidense Chronicle

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Aparecidense part company with Carlos Amaral

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Camilo Quiñonez

62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aparecidense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Luís Machado minds the shop at Aparecidense

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Luís Machado recited it perfectly.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aparecidense

Rian Caio 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Aparecidense

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Time is catching up with Rafael Assis

Everybody at Aparecidense saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Market

One of our own: Maestro joins the Aparecidense first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maestro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Aparecidense promote Tanque from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tanque 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.

Market

Aparecidense promote Pedro Amaral from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Amaral 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.

In brief