The Flamengo Herald
Squad19 Apr 2038
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.
Match17 Apr 2038
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.
Squad19 Apr 2038
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 ratings19 Apr 2038
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.
Squad19 Apr 2038
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.
Market19 Apr 2038
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.
Squad19 Apr 2038
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.
Boardroom19 Apr 2038
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 ratings19 Apr 2038
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
- Player ratings Rayan was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Market Vinícius Nardo steps up from the Flamengo academy
- Market One of our own: Danilo Rangel joins the Flamengo first team