The Anápolis Post
Squad8 Feb 2027
Rafael Tavares damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Renan 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 Anápolis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jhosenffer Yllescas 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. Jhosenffer Yllescas has, at Anápolis, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Anápolis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Veiga 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Danilo Ribeiro joins the Anápolis first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danilo Ribeiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
A long bet from Anápolis on Jhosenffer Yllescas
He is 20, and nobody at Anápolis signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
A long bet from Anápolis on Marco Valer
He is 20, and nobody at Anápolis signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
A long bet from Anápolis on Francisco Dávila
He is 19, and nobody at Anápolis signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Rafael Tavares 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 Rafael Tavares is on it.