Urso

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Urso

50 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Humaitá's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Humaitá has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Humaitá sink to position 15

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

Humaitá are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 9 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

Ignacio Bednarek stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Transfer targets

Wellington Junior is a medical away from Humaitá

The deal with Portuguesa is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Genílson 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 Humaitá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Time is catching up with Rhuan Allan

Everybody at Humaitá saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

The dugout

Urso frozen out at Humaitá

This is not rotation. Urso has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Humaitá is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Baiano

Humaitá asked and Maranhão said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Humaitá

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Humaitá are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Hiago Ribeiro

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Humaitá have done the hard part with Água Santa, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Gutte rejects the move

Humaitá had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Atlético Mineiro, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Roger

Humaitá asked and CSA said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Humaitá against Retrô

0‑2 to Retrô, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Ignacio Bednarek 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.

The dugout

Rodrigo Carvalho frozen out at Humaitá

This is not rotation. Rodrigo Carvalho has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Humaitá is pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

The game went through Urso — 6.08

Marked 6.08 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Natalício is in the works
  • The dugout Rhuan Allan asks for a word with the manager
46 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

8 matches without a win for Humaitá

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Humaitá are no longer polite ones.

Match

Humaitá are in real trouble now

Position 14, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

6 saves: Ignacio Bednarek was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Dodô turns down Humaitá

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bahia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Hugo Queiroz is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Humaitá

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

The dugout

Urso frozen out at Humaitá

This is not rotation. Urso has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Humaitá is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Humaitá rebuffed over Antônio

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Amazonas have kept their man, and Humaitá go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Humaitá come up short against Tuna Luso

Tuna Luso left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief