Pedro Bezerra

Defensive Midfielder - Floresta
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pedro Bezerra

61 Edition

The Floresta Herald

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Floresta tear Ituano apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Ituano, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Lelê's — 9.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Rafael Castro says Floresta went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Carlos Robles yet — 8.01

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Lelê 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 Floresta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Pacheco 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Gustavo Caballero

Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

One of those days for Eduardo Santos

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Mendes 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.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Rafael out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sport Recife lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Carlos Coronel has said yes to Ceará

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sport Recife have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Sport Recife say no — this time

The offer from Benfica for Pablo Maia was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Business is business: André Silva goes

Volta Redonda paid $2.8M and Sport Recife took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Business is business: Pedro Bezerra goes

Floresta paid $150.0K and Sport Recife took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The dugout

Robert Arboleda 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Pedro Ferreira 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.

Loan watch

Ryan Francisco has seen enough of Criciúma

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sport Recife, and 7 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief