Rafa

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Marked for Rafa

22 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Dec 2026

The knee: Ricardo Santana out for 117 days

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

Match28 Dec 2026

Every point is an argument now for Humaitá

Position 16 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Márcio Defendi says Humaitá went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Real improvement from Rafa at Humaitá

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rafa is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets28 Dec 2026

Wesley Braga is a medical away from Humaitá

The deal with Goiânia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Humaitá

Diego Cerón 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.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

205% of the income goes out in wages at Humaitá

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Edmilson Júnior

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

Transfer targets28 Dec 2026

Humaitá ask about Ruan

A loan enquiry to Goiás: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Dec 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ricardo Santana

131 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Humaitá lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Diego Cerón 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 Humaitá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Door shut on Dodô

Humaitá asked and Bahia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market14 Dec 2026

Wesley Martins steps up from the Humaitá academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wesley Martins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Márcio Defendi

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

Squad14 Dec 2026

Danilo Silva out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Danilo Silva, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Humaitá try to borrow João Fernando

Boavista have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

A loan move for Felipe Redaelli is in the works

Humaitá have made the call to Náutico. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Humaitá ask about Estevan

A loan enquiry to Atlético Mineiro: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

18 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match28 Nov 2026

16 matches without a win for Humaitá

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Humaitá are no longer polite ones.

Match30 Nov 2026

Humaitá are in real trouble now

Position 16, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Humaitá

Cleyton 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.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

Wages eat 146% of everything Humaitá earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Diego Cerón 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Imperatriz take the points off Humaitá

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match30 Nov 2026

The half-term report on Humaitá

Position 16, 4 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Igor Neves faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Igor Neves after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Pedro Lucas beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

11 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Rafa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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

Pedro Lucas 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 Humaitá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jackson Caucaia is slowing down

At 39, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Market12 Oct 2026

Humaitá promote Daniel Porto from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Porto has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market12 Oct 2026

Rafa already looking beyond Humaitá

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Squad12 Oct 2026

No place for Rafa in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Humaitá are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market12 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Humaitá

Diego Cerón arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Alex Tavares 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

Humaitá pick up Bruno Fassetta Argüello for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Bruno Fassetta Argüello arrives at Humaitá with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief