The Itabaiana Chronicle
Squad8 Mar 2027
Álvaro Cabrera breaks a bone — 93 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Alex Araujo has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Itabaiana can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Marcílio signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marcílio and Itabaiana agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Itabaiana
Dodô and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Itabaiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafael Rech 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 Mar 2027
Itabaiana promote Ronny from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ronny 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Luiz Borges joins the Itabaiana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luiz Borges is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Kevin Ghigliazza is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Dodô loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Dodô's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Douglas Tavares
- Market The Gabriel Bernard talk will not go away
- Boardroom Itabaiana were not finished after all