The Ceará Chronicle
Player ratings14 Jul 2031
Nobody could get near Riquelme Fillipi
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Riquelme Fillipi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riquelme Fillipi commits to Ceará for another 5 years.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Robinho Junior 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 Ceará this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Words at Ceará training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathías Villasanti 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.
The terraces14 Jul 2031
Ceará supporters have found a favourite in Robinho Junior
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Robinho Junior has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Jul 2031
Vinicius Zanocelo the difference as Ceará beat Santa Cruz
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vinicius Zanocelo. 1‑0 against Santa Cruz, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Ceará lose Nene
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings14 Jul 2031
A masterclass from Vinicius Zanocelo
Marked 8.26 — 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.
Market14 Jul 2031
The Robinho Junior question follows Ceará around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Robinho Junior’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Ceará put Luis Barbat up for sale
- Player ratings The referee tires of Lucas Lima
- The terraces The stand has a song for Vinicius Zanocelo