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Process

Marked for Ângelo

182 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sport Recife lose André Luís

125 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Nahuel Ferraresi 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

The manager makes an example of Nahuel Ferraresi

“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.

Squad

Gustavo Alves stays put

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

Market

The Carlos Coronel question follows Sport Recife around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Carlos Coronel’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Sport Recife shop where it costs nothing

Gustavo Alves signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief

Back issues
180 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

9 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.

Market

Ângelo 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 Sport Recife can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near André Silva

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Nahuel Ferraresi 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Sport Recife

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Luciano 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.

Market

Oeste watching Ângelo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sport Recife have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Brenno Junqueira stays put

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Marcos Antonio

A mark of 7.77, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

178 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

24 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Pablo Maia

Defensive actions: 42. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

7 matches without a win for Sport Recife

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Sport Recife are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Paulinho keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings

Marcos Antonio shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nahuel Ferraresi shuts the door

Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Nahuel Ferraresi 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.

Market

Business is business: Carlos Eduardo goes

Internacional paid $1.2M 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.

Player ratings

Artur runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Eyes on Valentín Aguiñagalde again

The phone has started ringing about Valentín Aguiñagalde again, and this time the name on the line is Bragantino. Sport Recife are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief