The Botafogo-SP Courier
Market12 Oct 2026
Ericson is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Botafogo-SP is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hebert Badaró is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Botafogo-SP
Gabriel Inocêncio 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vitor Feijão 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Kelvin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kelvin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Botafogo-SP take on the side everybody is chasing
Athletico Paranaense arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Matheus Aurélio 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
João Costa 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 João Costa is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Jefferson Nem linked with a move away
The name of Jefferson Nem keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Botafogo-SP say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad Rafael Gava has settled at Botafogo-SP
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Hygor