The Itabaiana Chronicle
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Itabaiana
Dodô and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Kevin Ghigliazza 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.
Loan watch14 Jun 2027
Alex Rangel wants to come home
“I did not go to Pouso Alegre to sit and watch. I want to come back to Itabaiana and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Market14 Jun 2027
Itabaiana promote Pedro Lima from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Lima 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Ben-Hur
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Jun 2027
Humaitá watching Juninho
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Itabaiana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A masterclass from Matheus Vieira
Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match12 Jun 2027
Matheus Vieira rescues a point for Itabaiana
It needed Matheus Vieira to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Água Santa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Dodô knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dodô trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.