The Volta Redonda Post
Squad8 Mar 2027
Eliton Junior signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eliton Junior and Volta Redonda agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Volta Redonda
Fabrício was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
Leandro has seen enough of Maccabi Petach Tikva
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Volta Redonda, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Pedro Cunha joins the Volta Redonda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Cunha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Volta Redonda promote Daniel Ribeiro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Ribeiro 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Roberto Hernández falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Rafael Castro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Rafael Castro's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Marquinhos 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 Marquinhos is on it.
In brief
- Squad Matheus Souza has seen what the next man earns
- Market The Ygor Catatau question follows Volta Redonda around
- The dugout Felipe Cardoso asks for a word with the manager