The Confiança Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rafael Furlan 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 Confiança this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Tanque joins the Confiança first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tanque is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Gabriel Costa joins the Confiança first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Costa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Confiança
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gama was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cristian Varela is slowing down
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Confiança
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market12 Oct 2026
Talks stall between Confiança and Frank Salas
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A reunion for Iury
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Ituano in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Confiança add cover with Alisson Soares
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Alisson Soares is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Ituano at home
- The dugout Adriano Klein keeps his manager's vote