31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process
26 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

28 days out for Cayo Tenório after a fracture

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

Squad

Words exchanged at ABC

Wellington Carvalho 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bruno Leite

“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

Back issues
25 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

35 days out for Cayo Tenório after a fracture

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

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

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

Transfer targets

ABC rebuffed over Kauan

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Internacional have kept their man, and ABC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Luiz Fernando 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.

The dugout

Lucas Souza is still paying for one afternoon at ABC

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Bruno Leite knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bruno Leite trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Vitor Luiz 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

Isaac Bryan placed on the list

ABC have made Isaac Bryan available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

The Esquerdinha question follows ABC around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Esquerdinha’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

24 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Cayo Tenório out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason ABC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Wellington Carvalho 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

ABC rebuffed over Kadir Barría

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Botafogo have kept their man, and ABC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

João Pedro pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

ABC promote Márcio Gomes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Márcio Gomes 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.

Squad

João Pedro 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

52 days out for Cayo Tenório after a fracture

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

The dugout

João Diogo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” ABC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Billal Brahimi due for a ABC medical

Everything agreed with Santos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wellington Carvalho was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Leite 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.

Transfer targets

ABC rebuffed over Lautaro Torres

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Temperley have kept their man, and ABC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Randerson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Randerson and ABC agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Renê Júnior asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Marques

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Marques, and the manager let it.

In brief

22 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cayo Tenório breaks a bone — 59 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Dudu Mandai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ABC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at ABC

Wellington Carvalho 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.

Transfer targets

ABC rebuffed over Rodriguinho

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Corinthians have kept their man, and ABC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at ABC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luiz Fernando was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Marquinho 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.

Transfer targets

ABC try to borrow Lautaro Torres

Temperley have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Felipe Longo is in the works

ABC have made the call to Corinthians. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

6 new faces, and ABC are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

21 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

66 days out for Cayo Tenório after a fracture

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

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

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

Transfer targets

ABC baulk at the price for Breno Vereza

Vasco da Gama wanted more than $58.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Isaac Bryan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isaac Bryan and ABC agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets

ABC rebuffed over Kauan

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Internacional have kept their man, and ABC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Pericles 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.

The dugout

Lucas Souza is still paying for one afternoon at ABC

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

A door opens for Marquinho

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Still no ink between ABC and Anderson Sobral

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

In brief

20 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cayo Tenório breaks a bone — 73 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Luiz Fernando keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” ABC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Wellington Carvalho 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

ABC bid $58.0K for Breno Vereza

The offer went to Vasco da Gama this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Isaac Bryan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isaac Bryan and ABC agree another 3 years.

Boardroom

ABC beat the market to Bernardo Jacob from Internacional

Internacional will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Bernardo Jacob has pre-agreed a move to ABC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

San Luis tell ABC: Diego González is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

One of our own: João Silva joins the ABC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. João Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Bruno Leite 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.

In brief

19 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

80 days out for Cayo Tenório after a fracture

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

Transfer targets

Billal Brahimi turns down ABC

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Santos keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wellington Carvalho was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallyson 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

Bruno Leite 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.

Squad

Celsinho signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Celsinho and ABC agree another 1 years.

Transfer targets

ABC try to borrow Diego González

San Luis have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Dudu Mandai told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dudu Mandai has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at ABC.

The dugout

Luiz Fernando knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at ABC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Boardroom Open for business: ABC enter the window
  • The dugout The manager makes Vitor Luiz a promise
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Thalissinho
18 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Cayo Tenório out for 87 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason ABC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Wallyson 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marquinho

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marquinho, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at ABC
  • The dugout Bruno Leite knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Wallyson
  • Squad Celsinho finally belongs at ABC
17 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cayo Tenório breaks a bone — 96 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wallyson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Lucas Souza is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

16 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Cayo Tenório out for 104 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason ABC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Randerson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” ABC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Wellington Carvalho 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallyson 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at ABC

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Renê Júnior knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Renê Júnior trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

15 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Renê Júnior says ABC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

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

Market

Júnior Ribeiro steps up from the ABC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Júnior Ribeiro 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.

Market

One of our own: Júnior Gomes joins the ABC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Júnior Gomes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A row about effort at ABC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Pedro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

The shop window has Fabão in it

ABC have let the market know Fabão can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

  • The dugout Darlan knocks on the manager’s door
  • Squad Questions about Ronaldy on the training pitch
  • Squad Rodolfo Castro is training like a man with a point to make
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on João Pedro
14 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Wallyson 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dudu Mandai is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Dudu Mandai has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

A door opens for Marquinho

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

Celsinho keeps his options open

“I will play as long as the body lets me and stop the day it does not.” He is 38, with 0 appearances behind him, and the club has to plan for a decision that is not yet made.

Market

ABC put Clayton up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Clayton may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Darlan knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at ABC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

13 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

Wellington Carvalho 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 ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallyson 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

The manager makes an example of Marquinho

“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.

The dugout

Lucas Souza is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Luiz Fernando knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at ABC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes Vitor Luiz a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at ABC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

12 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Bruno Leite: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” ABC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at ABC

Wallyson 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.

Squad

A row about effort at ABC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Pedro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

ABC are still strangers to each other

23 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

Anderson Sobral signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anderson Sobral and ABC agree another 1 years.

The dugout

Wallyson knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Wallyson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

ABC bring in an old head

Anderson Sobral is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

The dugout

The manager makes Marquinho a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at ABC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

The shop window has Celsinho in it

ABC have let the market know Celsinho can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

11 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Wallyson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” ABC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

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

Market

Sérgio Borges steps up from the ABC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sérgio Borges 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.

Squad

Pablo Andrade signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Andrade commits to ABC for another 2 years.

Squad

No place for Pericles in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ABC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Celsinho brings the grey hairs ABC lacked

At 38, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

The dugout

Bruno Leite asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Marquinho has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marquinho has written the date down.

Squad

Renê Júnior has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Renê Júnior keeps the shirt for now, at ABC's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

  • Market ABC shop where it costs nothing
  • Market ABC shop where it costs nothing
10 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at ABC

Wellington Carvalho 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.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallyson 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.

Squad

A month that belonged to Thalissinho

The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at ABC who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Boardroom

109% of the income goes out in wages at ABC

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Edson is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Edson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

Marquinho has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marquinho has written the date down.

In brief

9 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wallyson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Marquinho 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.

Squad

João Pedro 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Souza's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Randerson knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at ABC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

The penny has dropped for Edson

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at ABC the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

In brief

  • Squad Ronaldy is not doing himself any favours
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Rhyan
8 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at ABC

Wallyson 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.

Squad

ABC are still strangers to each other

18 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Renê Júnior asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

“I want to play”: Randerson speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout

The manager makes Marquinho a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at ABC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Esquerdinha wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and ABC have no good answer.

In brief

7 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Rodolfo Castro keeps ABC in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Both of them Jhosefer's — 8.55

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

6 goals as ABC and Atletico Goianiense go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between ABC and Atletico Goianiense, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

ABC come up short against Atletico Goianiense

Atletico Goianiense left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at ABC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wallyson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: Wesley Porto joins the ABC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wesley Porto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

ABC promote Diego Lopes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Lopes 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.

The dugout

Diego Moura: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Randerson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Randerson, and the manager let it.

In brief

6 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Wallyson 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

One of their own: Jhosefer

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Jhosefer was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Rhyan is the month’s best young player

At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. ABC will try not to make too much of it.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon ABC had all but put away. Oeste will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

The month belongs to Brunão

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. ABC have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Pedro 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.

Match

ABC share the spoils with Oeste

A 1‑1 draw with Oeste leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Diego Moura on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

5 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Rodolfo Castro stands alone

12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Nowhere to hide for ABC

0‑5 against Nautico, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wallyson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Lucas Marques runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Inquest at ABC

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

Diego Moura: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Lucas Souza is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings

Lucas Souza never got going

4.25 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Geilson

“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

4 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Vintage Wallyson — 7.84

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.84, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Wellington Carvalho 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 ABC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at ABC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wallyson 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.

Match

Wallyson sends ABC past Paysandu

It finished 1‑0, and it was Wallyson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to ABC.

The dugout

Marquinho 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.

Squad

18 new faces, and ABC are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

No place for Marquinho in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ABC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Player ratings

Lima beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Diego Moura: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

  • The dugout Wallyson knocks on the manager's door
  • Player ratings Nothing got past Lucas Souza
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Igor Bahia
3 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

ABC out of the cup

Atlético Mineiro ended it 0‑5. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Bruno Leite was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. 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.

Squad

Rodolfo Castro keeps ABC in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The terraces

ABC are taken apart by Atlético Mineiro — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-5. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Squad

A falling-out at ABC

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

Boardroom

Wictor Gabriel will join ABC for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Wictor Gabriel has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means ABC have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Match

ABC are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for ABC against Criciuma

1‑2 to Criciuma, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No place for Renê Júnior in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ABC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

  • Boardroom Nobody left the ABC dressing room in a hurry
  • Squad A row about effort at ABC
  • The dugout Diego Moura: “No excuses”
2 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bruno Leite

Successful dribbles: 47. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

ABC taken apart

0‑3 to Santa Cruz, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Rodolfo Castro stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Jhosefer pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at ABC

Wallyson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

One of our own: Wesley Guimarães joins the ABC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wesley Guimarães is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

João Santos steps up from the ABC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. João Santos 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.

Market

ABC promote José Oliveira from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. José Oliveira 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.

Market

ABC promote Pedro Queiroz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pedro Queiroz 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.

In brief

  • Squad Edson reaches 200 appearances
  • The dugout No hiding place for Cayo Tenório
  • Boardroom Nobody left the ABC dressing room in a hurry
1 Edition

The ABC Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Esquerdinha leads the rout of Boa

27‑2, and Esquerdinha took the headlines on an afternoon when everything ABC tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A debut Esquerdinha will not forget — 9.81

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 5 on the scoresheet, 9.81 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

A day Esquerdinha will not forget

5 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

A day Lima will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Luiz Fernando takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Brunão takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

A brace, and Wallyson takes the afternoon — 8.09

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Wallyson provided it, and the 8.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Lucas Souza scores twice — 7.90

Two goals and a mark of 7.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Rhyan at 21 — 8.40

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rhyan did not need any: 8.40, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

In brief