Joaquín Vera

Central Defender - Brasil de Pelotas
28 Apr 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Joaquín Vera

37 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Lobo out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brasil de Pelotas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Brasil de Pelotas

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

Squad

Words at Brasil de Pelotas training over how hard people work

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

Back issues
36 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Lobo out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brasil de Pelotas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Leonardo Cavalcante 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 Brasil de Pelotas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Joaquín Vera is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Leonardo Cavalcante 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 Brasil de Pelotas can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Brasil de Pelotas

Leonardo Cavalcante 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

A row about effort at Brasil de Pelotas

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

Market

Luiz Carvalho is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Brasil de Pelotas has been clear about where Luiz Carvalho stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Luiz Carvalho knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Brasil de Pelotas, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

The formation has left Joaquín Vera behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Brasil de Pelotas will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

The Lucas Nardo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Brasil de Pelotas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The terraces

The Murilo rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Brasil de Pelotas would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

Squad

Nehuén Altamirano still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Brasil de Pelotas would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

29 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Brasil de Pelotas

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

Squad

Joaquín Vera gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Joaquín Vera has just signed for Brasil de Pelotas, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Brasil de Pelotas sign Joaquín Vera, one for the future

Joaquín Vera is 18, and Brasil de Pelotas have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Joaquín Vera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joaquín Vera and Brasil de Pelotas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Luiz Carvalho 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 Luiz Carvalho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Rodriguinho question follows Brasil de Pelotas around

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

In brief