The Botafogo Sentinel
Match8 Aug 2026
Botafogo run riot against Sport Recife
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match4 Aug 2026
Danilo leads the rout of Vasco da Gama
4‑0, and Danilo took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Botafogo tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Danilo scores twice — 9.37
Two goals and a mark of 9.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Allan yet — 8.04
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match8 Aug 2026
Botafogo make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Botafogo have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vitinho stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vitinho and Botafogo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Danilo wants more than Botafogo are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Botafogo
Allan 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Arthur Cabral
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arthur Cabral, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Paulo Rodrigues joins the Botafogo first team
- Market One of our own: Willian Borges joins the Botafogo first team
- Market Botafogo promote Douglas Braga from within