The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel
Squad24 Jan 2028
A fracture rules Daniel Borges out for 17 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Brasil de Pelotas may not be able to give Dudu what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Dudu wants continental football; whether Brasil de Pelotas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Brasil de Pelotas
Alex Nogueira 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Antônio Correia 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Nomme Kalju are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Brasil de Pelotas will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
When it matters, Alex Nogueira 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
The Alex Nogueira question follows Brasil de Pelotas around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alex Nogueira’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A season on the outside for Luis Quintero
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Brasil de Pelotas has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Marcelo Tavares has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marcelo Tavares has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Léo Bahia asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Alejandro Encina