Raykkonen

Striker - Bragantino
14 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Raykkonen

26 Edition

The Internacional Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Niclas Eliasson breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Léo Gomes: 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.” Internacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Internacional

Alexandro Bernabei 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.

Loan watch

Raykkonen wants to come home

“I did not go to Bragantino to sit and watch. I want to come back to Internacional and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

The dugout

When it matters, Rodrigo Villagra plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Vitinho linked with a move away

The name of Vitinho keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Internacional say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bragantino lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

An offer of $10.8M for Maicon

Bragantino have gone to Levski with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Flamengo tell Bragantino: Samuel Lino is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Rodriguinho has said yes to Fortaleza

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

Match

5 matches without a win for Bragantino

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

The dugout

Caíque says Bragantino 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.

Market

Bragantino sell Wallace Yan for $1.5M

Wallace Yan has left for Cruzeiro in a $1.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

Raykkonen due for a Bragantino medical

Everything agreed with Internacional, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Bragantino make their move for Renê

$290.0K on the table at Fluminense. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

In brief

19 Edition

The Internacional Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alerrandro damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Squad

Niclas Eliasson breaks a bone — 97 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gustavo Mantuan

Internacional asked and Zenit said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Kauan agrees terms with Vasco da Gama

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Internacional people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.6M for Ryan Francisco

Internacional have gone to Sport Recife with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.1M for Kahiser Lenis

Internacional have gone to Atletico Goianiense with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Match

No end in sight to Internacional's wait for a win

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

Market

Internacional turn down Sampaio Correa for Raykkonen

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Internacional bid $540.0K for Jair

The offer went to Vasco da Gama this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

In brief

12 Edition

The Internacional Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Alerrandro out for 84 days

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

The dugout

Niclas Eliasson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Internacional may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Raykkonen, 18, steals the show — 7.66

Marked 7.66 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Vintage Alan Patrick — 7.97

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.97, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Alexandro Bernabei 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 Internacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Only the photograph left for Diego Esser

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diego Esser will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Internacional the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Calebe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The step up is real for Matheus Melo

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Internacional and Vasco da Gama in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

10 Edition

The Internacional Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alerrandro

101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Internacional lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

No mercy from Internacional

Mirassol will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Internacional were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and Calebe takes the afternoon — 8.94

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Calebe provided it, and the 8.94 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Alan Patrick yet — 8.43

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.43 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Braian Aguirre

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Internacional

Alexandro Bernabei 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.

Squad

Guillermo Maripán 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Raykkonen

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Thiago Porto kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

3 Edition

The Internacional Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Internacional march on in the cup

Santa Cruz are out and Internacional go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Gustavo Prado, 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.

Player ratings

Niclas Eliasson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Internacional

Alexandro Bernabei 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.

Squad

Raykkonen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Raykkonen commits to Internacional for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Internacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Maripán 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kayky

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Raykkonen

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Kayky

Marked 8.17 — 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.

In brief