The Itabaiana Chronicle
Squad12 Apr 2027
The knee: André Ramalho out for 34 days
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Itabaiana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Itabaiana
Kayke and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Itabaiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Talisson 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 Apr 2027
Itabaiana promote Fera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fera 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Negão joins the Itabaiana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Negão is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Home is on Abdulaziz Al-Marzooqi's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Itabaiana are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
- Market Vinícius Matheus linked with a move away
- Market Itabaiana shop where it costs nothing
- The dugout Chen Yuhao knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ezequiel González