The Nautico Courier
Squad17 Apr 2028
95 days out for Mauro Alfonso after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nautico will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Toró runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Jhoan Montoya: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nautico have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match15 Apr 2028
Nautico end the wait against Oeste
It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market17 Apr 2028
Nautico may not be able to give Nicolás Rossi what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Nicolás Rossi wants continental football; whether Nautico can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Nautico
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Nautico
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dodô was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Leandro Kauã 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 Nautico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Vitor Cunha joins the Nautico first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vitor Cunha is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Nautico promote André Teixeira from within
- Market Nautico promote Gabriel Rodrigues from within
- Match Nautico find a way past Oeste