The Tombense Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
Edimar pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tombense
Rafinha Potiguar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ángel Guerra arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ángel Guerra has, at Tombense, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Fabián Zambrano signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabián Zambrano and Tombense agree another 3 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
Tombense promote Gabriel Costa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Costa 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
Rafinha Potiguar gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rafinha Potiguar is on it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Rafinha Potiguar goes back to face ABC
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Rafinha Potiguar’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tombense needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ángel Guerra joins Tombense to strengthen the squad
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Tombense have gone and got theirs early.
Market12 Oct 2026
The João Vitor question follows Tombense around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with João Vitor’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.