The CRB Courier
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at CRB
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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Fábio Alemão 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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
David Braw 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 CRB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Apr 2029
Samuel Costa steps up from the CRB academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samuel Costa 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
CRB promote Maluco from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maluco 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
One of our own: Marcos Rodrigues joins the CRB first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcos Rodrigues is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Apr 2029
CRB promote Antônio Araujo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antônio Araujo 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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
CRB are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 14336. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
A promise the CRB board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
In brief
- Loan watch Gabriel Ticianelli counts the days
- The dugout Raynan gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Lourenço goes back to face Goiás