The Independência Herald
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Independência part company with Willian Oliveira
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Squad16 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Caio Ribeiro
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Independência lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Luiz Tavares minds the shop at Independência
“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; Luiz Tavares recited it perfectly.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Independência
Vitor Oliveira 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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Time is catching up with Sebastián Palacios
Everybody at Independência saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at Independência
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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Wages eat 214% of everything Independência earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market16 Apr 2029
Independência promote Marcelo Barbosa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Barbosa 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: Thiago Lima joins the Independência first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thiago Lima is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Victor Neves steps up from the Independência academy
- Market Samuel Peixoto steps up from the Independência academy
- Squad Words at Independência training over how hard people work