Willian Neves

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sport Recife U18
17 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Willian Neves

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The Sport Recife Courier

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Coronel

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Young

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Ruan Pablo says Sport Recife 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.

Market

Sport Recife may not be able to give Enzo Díaz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Enzo Díaz wants continental football; whether Sport Recife can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Nahuel Ferraresi 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sport Recife

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

Sport Recife promote Carlos Nogueira from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Nogueira 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.

Market

Willian Neves steps up from the Sport Recife academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Willian Neves 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: Juninho joins the Sport Recife first team

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

In brief