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The Volta Redonda Post

24 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Volta Redonda spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zin Eddine Meddour

125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Volta Redonda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

33 days out for Lucas Borges after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Volta Redonda will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Zin Eddine Meddour asks to leave Volta Redonda

“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.

Boardroom

Carioca has agreed to leave Volta Redonda for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

A falling-out at Volta Redonda

Lucas Souza and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Volta Redonda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudinho 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 dugout

Vitinho gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Still no ink between Volta Redonda and Lucas Giménez

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volta Redonda, another week without a signature from Lucas Giménez.

In brief