The Boavista Sentinel
Squad25 Feb 2036
Hugo Nunes damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Squad25 Feb 2036
Gabriel Conceição 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 Boavista this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Feb 2036
Eber Ocampos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market25 Feb 2036
Boavista promote Márcio Batista from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Márcio Batista 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.
Market25 Feb 2036
Boavista promote Antônio Carvalho from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antônio Carvalho 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.
Market25 Feb 2036
Boavista promote Juninho from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juninho 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.
Market25 Feb 2036
Boavista promote Wesley Monteiro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wesley Monteiro 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.
Squad25 Feb 2036
Boavista lose Anthony Nwadioha
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout25 Feb 2036
The manager makes an example of Caio Porto
“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.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Vinícius Assis
- The dugout David Oliveira knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom Boavista keep producing them