The Boa Sentinel
The terraces17 Apr 2028
The mood at Boa has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad17 Apr 2028
The knee: Bruninho out for 35 days
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Boa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A fracture rules Max Oliveira out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Wellington Nem says Boa went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market17 Apr 2028
Jorge Gaitán hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Boa can pretend not to have heard.
Match15 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for Boa
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Marcílio in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Matheus Lemos was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Boa
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- Market Ronny steps up from the Boa academy
- Market Wesley Araujo steps up from the Boa academy
- Market Douglas Moreira steps up from the Boa academy