Igor Lima

Left Midfielder - Grêmio
12 Dec 2027
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The Grêmio Herald

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings29 Nov 2027

Pedro Lima goes up and wins it — 7.66

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.66 for the rest of it.

Market29 Nov 2027

Walter Kannemann is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Grêmio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings29 Nov 2027

Jovane Cabral was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match27 Nov 2027

Criciuma take the points off Grêmio

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom29 Nov 2027

Doors closed at Grêmio

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Juan Ignacio Nardoni falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

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 1‑3 Alex Amaral left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

No hiding place for Dodi

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

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Carlos Vinícius 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 Carlos Vinícius is on it.

In brief

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69 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match20 Nov 2027

Chastening afternoon for Grêmio

A 0‑3 beating by Flamengo was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market22 Nov 2027

Erick Noriega puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Grêmio, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Jovane Cabral runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad22 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Grêmio

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

Squad22 Nov 2027

Juan Ignacio Nardoni falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Alex Amaral faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Alex Amaral after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Flávio

“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 dugout22 Nov 2027

A promise honoured for Jovane Cabral

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Grêmio told Jovane Cabral something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The terraces22 Nov 2027

The spotlight tightens on Weverton

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief