Leonardo Bezerra

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The Fluminense Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Santiago Moreno damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Kevin Serna: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fluminense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Luciano Acosta wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Luan Polli 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 Fluminense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Fluminense training over how hard people work

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

Boardroom

Graduation day at Fluminense

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

John Kennedy wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Fluminense hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

One of our own: Leonardo Bezerra joins the Fluminense first team

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

Market

Fábio Barbosa steps up from the Fluminense academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fábio Barbosa 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.

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