Wagner Leonardo

Central Defender - Grêmio
8 Sep 2026
Tuesday
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Marked for Wagner Leonardo

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The Grêmio Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Grêmio march on in the cup

Bahia are out and Grêmio go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Weverton keeps Grêmio 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.

Player ratings

Jovane Cabral scores twice — 6.98

Two goals and a mark of 6.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Willian, 38, rolls back the years — 8.33

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Grêmio cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Weverton 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 Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Arthur 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

Grêmio find a way past Sport Recife

Sport Recife made Grêmio work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Wagner Leonardo at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Grêmio.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Tetê
  • Squad Weverton has become a man the manager trusts
  • The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Dodi
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The Grêmio Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cristian Pavón sends Grêmio through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Cristian Pavón obliged against Sampaio Correa. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Grêmio.

Market

IK Start come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Grêmio did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Grêmio

Weverton 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.

Squad

Words at Grêmio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arthur 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.

Player ratings

Wagner Leonardo was immovable

21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match

Carlos Vinícius the difference as Grêmio beat Vasco da Gama

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Carlos Vinícius. 1‑0 against Vasco da Gama, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

José Enamorado out for 16 days

The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for José Enamorado, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Francis Amuzu 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Walter Kannemann

7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Grêmio had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief