Tete

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Marked for Tete

224 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

11 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market11 Nov 2030

Guilherme Calci asks to leave Sport Recife

“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.

Match9 Nov 2030

5 matches without a win for Sport Recife

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Sport Recife are no longer polite ones.

Match9 Nov 2030

5 matches without a goal for Sport Recife

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market11 Nov 2030

Only the photograph left for Gustavo Miranda

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustavo Miranda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Recife the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad11 Nov 2030

Lucas Moura 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Nov 2030

A row about effort at Sport Recife

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

Squad11 Nov 2030

Ângelo stays put

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

Squad11 Nov 2030

A muscle injury sidelines Tete for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Sport Recife will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

Enzo Díaz gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Enzo Díaz is on it.

In brief

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The Sport Recife Courier

30 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market30 Sep 2030

Cainan Santos asks to leave Sport Recife

“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.

The dugout30 Sep 2030

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Match28 Sep 2030

The wait goes on for Sport Recife

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad30 Sep 2030

A falling-out at Sport Recife

Lucas Moura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match28 Sep 2030

The goals have deserted Sport Recife

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sport Recife can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad30 Sep 2030

Words at Sport Recife training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Ferraresi 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.

Match28 Sep 2030

Atlético Mineiro take the points off Sport Recife

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad30 Sep 2030

Tete stays put

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

The dugout30 Sep 2030

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Igor Alves left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

199 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match18 May 2030

No end in sight to Sport Recife's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sport Recife has to find a result from somewhere.

Match15 May 2030

Sport Recife bow out of the cup

Bragantino go through and Sport Recife go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces20 May 2030

Sport Recife are taken apart by Bragantino — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings20 May 2030

Nobody could get near Tete

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad20 May 2030

Lucas Moura 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 May 2030

A row about effort at Sport Recife

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

The dugout20 May 2030

Lucas Moura gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match18 May 2030

Sport Recife come up short against Atlético Mineiro

Atlético Mineiro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom20 May 2030

Doors closed at Sport Recife

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Lucas Moura left out for tactical reasons at Sport Recife
  • The dugout Jandrei has become a man the manager trusts
147 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 May 2029

Rafael breaks a bone — 120 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match16 May 2029

Sport Recife through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Ceará, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match16 May 2029

Cruel end for Ceará as Sport Recife pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Sport Recife scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings21 May 2029

Matheus Menezes, 21, steals the show — 7.60

Marked 7.60 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad21 May 2029

Words exchanged at Sport Recife

Lucas Moura and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match19 May 2029

Lucas Moura’s goal not enough for Sport Recife

Lucas Moura scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Atlético Mineiro, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The terraces21 May 2029

One of their own: Tete

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings21 May 2029

Nobody could get near Rhuan Gabriel

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 May 2029

Words at Sport Recife training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sabino 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.

In brief

142 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Apr 2029

Alisson has one foot out of the door

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

The dugout16 Apr 2029

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Squad16 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Lucas Moura 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.

Boardroom16 Apr 2029

Graduation day at Sport Recife

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market16 Apr 2029

Sport Recife promote Éder Rocha from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Éder Rocha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market16 Apr 2029

One of our own: Capitão joins the Sport Recife first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Capitão is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market16 Apr 2029

One of our own: Rafael Borges joins the Sport Recife first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rafael Borges is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad16 Apr 2029

A row about effort at Sport Recife

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

Boardroom16 Apr 2029

Sport Recife are making the ground bigger

Work is signed off on a capacity of 45641. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.

In brief

  • Boardroom A promise the Sport Recife board did not keep
  • Squad Tete stays put
  • The dugout Lucão gets it from the manager