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Marked for Maílton

11 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match10 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, Fortaleza do not lose

7 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Fortaleza

Tomás Pochettino 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Paulinho is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Emanuel Brítez

“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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Juan Miritello leaves them behind him

Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Calebe

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Fortaleza

Tomás Pochettino 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Juan Miritello

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Matheus Rossetto

Marked 8.74 — 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Matheus Rossetto sends Fortaleza past Santos

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Tomás Cardona

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Fortaleza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Figueiredo 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Fortaleza pick somebody else ahead of Maílton

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Tomás Pochettino runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Juan Miritello keeps on missing

Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

4 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from João Ricardo

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to Fortaleza's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortaleza has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tomás Pochettino 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 Fortaleza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Tomás Cardona

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

Match22 Aug 2026

Fortaleza come up short against Bragantino

Bragantino left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Calebe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

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

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Off the pace: Gabriel Fuentes

A mark of 5.58 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A day to forget for Juan Miritello

Marked 5.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief