The Bragantino Courier
Squad22 Apr 2030
Marlon Freitas damages knee ligaments — 144 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 144 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market22 Apr 2030
Marlon Freitas hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bragantino can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Juninho, 33, rolls back the years — 8.51
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.51 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings22 Apr 2030
Cristian Olivera runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 Apr 2030
Only the photograph left for Luccas Paraízo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luccas Paraízo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bragantino the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match20 Apr 2030
Bragantino make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bragantino have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad22 Apr 2030
A falling-out at Bragantino
Juninho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Apr 2030
Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Neves is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom22 Apr 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Bragantino
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Match Bragantino get the job done against Fortaleza
- Market Sérgio Nogueira steps up from the Bragantino academy
- Market Marcelo Teixeira steps up from the Bragantino academy