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Process

Marked for Edney

612 Edition

The Flamengo Herald

19 Apr 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Guilherme Barbosa breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Flamengo let it slip despite Ronald Araujo

Ronald Araujo had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and São Paulo were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad

Edney: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Flamengo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Ronald Araujo, 39, rolls back the years — 8.34

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.34 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Flamengo

Jonathan Jesus 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

Only the photograph left for Rodrygo Souza

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodrygo Souza will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Flamengo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Flamengo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Pellegrino 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.

Boardroom

8 academy players handed senior numbers at Flamengo

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Diogo Guzmán

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
549 Edition

The Universidad Catolica Herald

2 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Eriki hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Universidad Catolica can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Eriki: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Universidad Catolica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Rosen Bozhinov signs on for more

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

Squad

Tempers go at Universidad Catolica

Rosen Bozhinov 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

Luis Fernando wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Universidad Catolica hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

Edney has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universidad Catolica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

542 Edition

The Universidad Catolica Herald

15 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Silverware for Universidad Catolica

They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.

Match

Universidad Catolica do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Universidad Catolica came through the finding-out well against Sporting Cristal.

Squad

Ivan Maripan breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Rosen Bozhinov

17 goals and a season average of 7.65 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

The season belongs to Rosen Bozhinov

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Universidad Catolica have had the benefit of it.

Match

Nobody wins at Universidad Catolica

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Universidad Catolica turn down Union La Calera for Eriki

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

Market

Camilo Mejia asks to leave Universidad Catolica

“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

Diogenes gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Diogenes has just signed for Universidad Catolica, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief