Caio Assis

Defensive Midfielder - Treze
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Caio Assis

102 Edition

The Treze Courier

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

49 days out for Willian Oliveira after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Treze will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

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

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

Match

Treze cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Words exchanged at Treze

Leandro Soares 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

Words at Treze training over how hard people work

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Leandro Soares

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 97% of the Treze income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Market

Treze buy the years ahead of Caio Assis

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

A long bet from Treze on Leonardo Rocha

He is 19, and nobody at Treze signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Marcel Scalese out for 130 days

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Brasil de Pelotas

Maicon 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 Carlos Mosquera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Arthur Braga stays put

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

Loan watch

9 goals on loan for Bruno Costa

5 appearances at Urartu and the goals keep coming. Brasil de Pelotas are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pedro Machado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Machado, and the manager let it.

In brief

36 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Brasil de Pelotas

Maicon 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

Real improvement from Caio Assis at Brasil de Pelotas

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Caio Assis is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Maicon is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad

Carlos Mosquera signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Mosquera commits to Brasil de Pelotas for another 2 years.

The dugout

Maicon 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 dugout

Douglas Teixeira has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Brasil de Pelotas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief