Hereda

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3 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Hereda

48 Edition

The CRB Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for CRB — 7.98

1 for Martinelli, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Martinelli 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 CRB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Hereda out for 45 days

The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Hereda, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Stade Rennais tell CRB: Gabriel Vasconcelos is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

CRB supporters have found a favourite in João Neto

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. João Neto has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

CRB see off Athletico Paranaense

Three points for CRB, 2‑0 the final word against Athletico Paranaense in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Agustín Módica at his very best

Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at CRB.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Luizão

“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 ratings

Caetano was the difference for CRB

Marked 7.42. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

  • The dugout Gegê dropped after a run of poor form
  • The dugout Alexsander has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
Back issues
40 Edition

The CRB Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Alexsander says CRB went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The run is over for CRB

10 matches without defeat, and then América Mineiro. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

Tempers go at CRB

Luiz Phellype 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.

Match

América Mineiro take the points off CRB

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Fábio Alemão 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.

Player ratings

Douglas Baggio was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hereda

“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

Fábio Alemão slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Fábio Alemão is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Igor Teixeira to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

  • Player ratings Maceió beats them one at a time
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Danielzinho
  • Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Caetano
17 Edition

The CRB Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at CRB

Luiz Phellype 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 dugout

No hiding place for Henri

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

Match

The run is over for CRB

4 matches without defeat, and then Ferroviária. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Player ratings

Douglas Baggio beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Igor Teixeira on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Henri left out for tactical reasons at CRB

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Match

No goals between CRB and Ferroviária

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ferroviária will be the happier side with the point.

The dugout

Breno Herculano has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at CRB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Matheus Albino talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CRB know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief