The Capital Herald
Squad13 Sep 2032
8 saves: Deijair was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings13 Sep 2032
Age has not caught Gionnotti yet — 7.87
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Words exchanged at Capital
Deijair and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Sep 2032
A row about effort at Capital
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rato was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Capital lose Douglas Ribeiro
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings13 Sep 2032
Santiago Martinez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match11 Sep 2032
Capital share the spoils with Guarany de Bagé
A 1‑1 draw with Guarany de Bagé leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout13 Sep 2032
Rato gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rato is on it.
The dugout13 Sep 2032
Interim Coach on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Eduardo Souza is still being punished for one mistake
- Market The Rato story refuses to die
- Market Still no signature from Henrique Lima