Pierre

Defensive Midfielder - Fortaleza
1 Jan 2027
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Marked for Pierre

17 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Rafael Martins out for 41 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fortaleza will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market23 Nov 2026

Only the photograph left for Guilherme Moura

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guilherme Moura will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fortaleza the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Fortaleza

Jaílson 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.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

A promise honoured at Fortaleza

Something was said to Pierre and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Sasha's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match21 Nov 2026

Honours even between Fortaleza and Fluminense

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Leonardo Tavares chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Lucas Sasha could not find anything

4.85. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Loan watch23 Nov 2026

Nobody is scoring past Santos at Athletico Paranaense

7 shut-outs in 17 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Santos has been having a lot of them.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

49 days out for Rafael Martins after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Fortaleza will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Fortaleza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Cardona 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Fortaleza

Vitinho 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Lucas Crispim

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

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Vitinho gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vitinho is on it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

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

Market16 Nov 2026

Tomás Pochettino linked with a move away

The name of Tomás Pochettino keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Fortaleza say nothing, which says plenty.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

A reunion for Gabriel Fuentes

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fluminense in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

Santos’s loan is measured in nothing happening

6 clean sheets from 16 appearances at Athletico Paranaense. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

In brief

3 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Aug 2026

Fortaleza through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over Monte Azul, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Pinna scores twice — 8.29

Two goals and a mark of 8.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Pierre stays put

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Fortaleza

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

The terraces17 Aug 2026

One of their own: Lucca Prior

He is 22 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Fortaleza see off São Paulo

Three points for Fortaleza, 2‑0 the final word against São Paulo in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Lucca Prior

Marked 8.13 — 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Luiz Fernando

Marked 8.10 — 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Fortaleza

Vitinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Lucas Sasha
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Nathan Fogaça knocks on the manager’s door