Juninho

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Botafogo U20
7 Nov 2027
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Marked for Juninho

58 Edition

The Botafogo Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market6 Sep 2027

Pedrinho 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 Botafogo can pretend not to have heard.

Market6 Sep 2027

Arthur Cabral attracts admirers

The name of Arthur Cabral has come up in conversations Botafogo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market6 Sep 2027

Cristian Medina 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 Botafogo hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Botafogo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Medina 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.

Loan watch6 Sep 2027

Lourenço counts the days

“I watch every Botafogo game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Penafiel runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Álvaro Montoro is the division's best young player this month

At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Botafogo will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad6 Sep 2027

The month belongs to Arthur Cabral

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Botafogo have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

The Botafogo board find $38.4M for the manager

Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $38.4M well is entirely his problem now.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Botafogo

Juninho 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.

In brief

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The Botafogo Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market16 Aug 2027

Oliveirense come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Botafogo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Botafogo

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

Squad16 Aug 2027

Juan Camilo Portilla 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 Botafogo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Artur in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Danilo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Juninho stays put

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

Match14 Aug 2027

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Botafogo had all but put away. Juventude will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Vitinho has had enough of the noise

The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

Nahuel Ferraresi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Botafogo 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.

In brief