Dedé

Central Defender - Barra
3 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Dedé

49 Edition

The Barra Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Felipe Dionisio asks to leave Barra

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Ícaro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ícaro and Barra agree another 2 years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near João Bravo

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barra

Dedé 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 Barra

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

Transfer targets

Barra rebuffed over José Colmán

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

Match

Gabriel Morais’s goal not enough for Barra

Gabriel Morais scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Cianorte, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bruno Ré

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

The dugout

Felipe Silva: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

  • Boardroom Intake day at the Barra academy
  • Squad Kauã makes the team of the month
  • The dugout Bruno Silva knocks on the manager's door
Back issues
48 Edition

The Barra Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Beto scores twice — 9.02

Two goals and a mark of 9.02 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 Yuri Leles at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Yuri Leles did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Barra

Dedé 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Thomaz

Barra asked and Inter de Limeira said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Bruno Silva is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad

Words at Barra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edu Araújo 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

Barra get the job done against Cascavel

A 2‑1 win over Cascavel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

One of their own: Yuri Leles

He is 20 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

Capote was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

In brief

  • The dugout Bruno Ré dropped after a run of poor form
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Boardroom Belts tighten at Barra