The Sousa Post
Squad16 Apr 2029
Nahuel Peralta damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Éverton Alemão breaks a bone — 55 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Matheus Costa 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 Sousa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at Sousa
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market16 Apr 2029
Diego Fernandes steps up from the Sousa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Fernandes 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: Mateus Borges joins the Sousa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mateus Borges is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Apr 2029
Sousa promote Professor from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Professor 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
Luiz Cunha steps up from the Sousa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luiz Cunha 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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Sousa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wendel Barros was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Sousa board did not keep
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Sousa
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ciro Henrique