The Sport Recife Courier
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
A brace, and Lucas Moura takes the afternoon — 9.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lucas Moura provided it, and the 9.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Sport Recife until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Sport Recife
Enzo Díaz 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Number 100 for Lucas Moura
100 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.
Match24 Jul 2027
Sport Recife get the job done against Vasco da Gama
A 3‑1 win over Vasco da Gama, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Sport Recife beat the market to Juninho from Ceará
Ceará will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Juninho has pre-agreed a move to Sport Recife, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Cauly 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.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Ferreirinha in the eights
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
An own goal to forget for Luan
The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.
In brief
- Squad Lucas Moura is carrying Sport Recife
- The dugout When it matters, Ferreirinha plays
- The dugout Marcos Antonio knocks on the manager’s door