The Goiás Chronicle
Market17 Mar 2031
Jefté asks to leave Goiás
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Tempers go at Goiás
Diego Caito 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.
Market17 Mar 2031
Goiás may not be able to give Vitinho what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Vitinho wants continental football; whether Goiás can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad17 Mar 2031
A row about effort at Goiás
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Mar 2031
Goiás lose Thiago Lopes
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market17 Mar 2031
Ignacio Zaballa told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ignacio Zaballa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Goiás.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
Marco Antônio 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 Marco Antônio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
Miguel has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Goiás will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market17 Mar 2031
The Fintelman story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Fintelman signs something — a contract at Goiás or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.