André Borges

Left Midfielder - Humaitá
16 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

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24 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

100 days out for Zé Lucas after a fracture

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

Squad

João Victor is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Squad

Kevinho 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.

Squad

Jonathan Martínez 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. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Transfer targets

Humaitá rebuffed over Adriano

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nova Iguaçu have kept their man, and Humaitá go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Alex Rodrigues has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Humaitá 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

Back issues
12 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

11 matches without a win for Humaitá

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Humaitá are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Humaitá

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Zé Lucas

7.48, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Humaitá had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Guilherme Moreira chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The form table has caught Alex Rodrigues

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Match

Humaitá and Altos cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Altos came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Marcelo Braga's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Alex Rodrigues gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alex Rodrigues is on it.

Player ratings

Matheus Goiás beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

9 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Squad

7 saves: General was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from João Victor at 18 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. João Victor did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

João Victor’s goal not enough for Humaitá

João Victor scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Tuna Luso, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Guilherme Moreira left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

João Victor scores his first for Humaitá

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vitor Lima

“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.

The dugout

Humaitá pick somebody else ahead of Alex Rodrigues

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Marcelo Rodrigues, 14, gets his chance

Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 14. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.

In brief

7 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

The terraces

One of their own: Alex Rodrigues

He is 14 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Diego Correia steps up from the Humaitá academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Correia 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.

Market

One of our own: Marcelo Rodrigues joins the Humaitá first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcelo Rodrigues is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

No time for Tocantinópolis to settle

The goal that put Tocantinópolis ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Humaitá equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

Alex Rodrigues takes the honours

Marked 7.47 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Humaitá had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Honours even between Humaitá and Tocantinópolis

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Guilherme Moreira chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

A Humaitá teenager takes the young player award

Alex Rodrigues is 14, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief