The ABC Sentinel
Squad17 Apr 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luiz Fernando
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ABC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Edson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” ABC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market17 Apr 2028
Fernando Caixeta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what ABC can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
4 academy players handed senior numbers at ABC
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A row about effort at ABC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabrizio Angileri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Rodolfo Castro 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Márcio Lopes joins the ABC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Márcio Lopes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Apr 2028
André Xavier steps up from the ABC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. André Xavier has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Antônio Cavalcante joins the ABC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antônio Cavalcante is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for ABC against Vila Nova
- Boardroom ABC let a promise lapse
- Player ratings Cayo Tenório did the work nobody counts — 6.91