The Itabaiana Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Itabaiana
Gonzalo Papa 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gonzalo Papa is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Itabaiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joanderson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market12 Oct 2026
Itabaiana promote Rivaldo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rivaldo 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Espalter
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
19 new faces, and Itabaiana are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gustavo Cintra is still paying for one afternoon at Itabaiana
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market12 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Itabaiana
Dodô arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A reunion for Felipe Augusto
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against CSA in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- Market The Giovanny Salem question follows Itabaiana around
- The dugout Guilherme Ribeiro knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: CSA at home