The Bragantino Courier
Squad24 Aug 2026
Chrystian damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Aug 2026
Bragantino march on in the cup
Vasco da Gama are out and Bragantino go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Cleiton keeps Bragantino in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match22 Aug 2026
Bragantino 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Vinicinho
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pedro Henrique 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gabriel 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Bragantino find a way past Fortaleza
Fortaleza made Bragantino work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Pedro Henrique
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Isidro Pitta
- Player ratings Alix Vinicius shuts the door
- Market The shop window has Davi Gomes in it