Léo Linck

Goalkeeper - Botafogo
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Léo Linck

19 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Edenílson breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Botafogo

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Danilo 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.

Loan watch

Álvaro Montoro wants to come home

“I did not go to Pyunik to sit and watch. I want to come back to Botafogo and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Market

Vasco da Gama join the queue for Nathan Fernandes

Add another name to the list: Vasco da Gama have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nathan Fernandes. The answer from Botafogo has not changed — yet.

Match

Botafogo make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Raul Steffens stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Raul Steffens and Botafogo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Botafogo

Léo Linck 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

Marçal told to find a new club

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

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Botafogo

0‑1 against Bragantino, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Gabriel Batista keeps Botafogo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Botafogo turn down Al Jazira for Kadir Barría

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Danilo shuts the door

Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Léo Linck

“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.

Squad

Chris Ramos 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

4 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Botafogo march on in the cup

Fortaleza are out and Botafogo go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Kadir Barría, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Léo Linck 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 Botafogo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vitinho 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.

Match

Botafogo see off Mirassol

Three points for Botafogo, 1‑0 the final word against Mirassol in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Kaio Pantaleão in the eights

A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Allan

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

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Nahuel Ferraresi

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Matheus Martins runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief