The Volta Redonda Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Roberto Hernández would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Roberto Hernández is living that version at Volta Redonda, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market11 Jan 2027
The América Mineiro deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Marquinhos reports back to Volta Redonda with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Volta Redonda
André 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Volta Redonda count the cost of losing Roberto Hernández
37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Oswaldo Blanco 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. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: André Bezerra joins the Volta Redonda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. André Bezerra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Fábio Ribeiro joins the Volta Redonda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fábio Ribeiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: João Silva joins the Volta Redonda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. João Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Yago Henrique gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Oswaldo Blanco asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Rafael Castro is still paying for one afternoon at Volta Redonda
- The dugout Marquinhos gets picked when it counts