Éric Botteghin

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Marked for Éric Botteghin

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The Portuguesa Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match7 Nov 2026

Whatever happens, Portuguesa do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Portuguesa

Maceió 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Portuguesa

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

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Caio Roque

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match7 Nov 2026

Portuguesa get the job done against Goiânia

A 1‑0 win over Goiânia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Marcelo Freitas

Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Appearance number 100 for Gustavo Henrique

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Matheus Viana: “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.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Eduardo Biazus 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 Portuguesa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

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The Portuguesa Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Portuguesa

Maceió 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Éric Botteghin

“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 dugout12 Oct 2026

When it matters, Cauari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Gustavo Henrique 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 Gustavo Henrique trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

A reunion for Hericlis

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Ceilândia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Igor Torres story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Igor Torres signs something — a contract at Portuguesa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Everton Messias 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 Everton Messias has written the date down.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Maceió finally belongs at Portuguesa

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Home comforts ahead for Portuguesa

Ceilândia, position 6, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.

In brief