The Tombense Gazette
Squad17 Apr 2028
A fracture rules Diego Fernandes out for 75 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tombense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Betão says Tombense went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market17 Apr 2028
Guilherme Brito comes home
The shirt still fits. Guilherme Brito is back at Tombense, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Tombense
Jefferson 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.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Tombense
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 Tombense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Paulinho Souza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Jefferson
“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.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Luiz Carvalho joins the Tombense first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luiz Carvalho 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
Tombense promote Sérgio Teixeira from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sérgio Teixeira 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.
In brief
- Market Juninho steps up from the Tombense academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Kleiton Pego at his very best
- Match Kleiton Pego answers Sampaio Corrêa immediately