Maestro

Left Midfielder - Floresta U18
20 Feb 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Maestro

23 Edition

The Floresta Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bismark

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Floresta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Rodrygo Rodrigues is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Floresta will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Matheus Donelli

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

Market

Floresta sign Rafael Castro for $200.0K

The paperwork is done: Rafael Castro joins from Botafogo-SP in a deal worth $200.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

A falling-out at Floresta

Bruno Pacheco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

$200.0K for Rafael Castro, and Floresta supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Rafael Castro from Botafogo-SP for $200.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Transfer targets

Criciúma tell Floresta: Nicolas is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Maestro out for 23 days

The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Maestro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Mateo Seoane is in the works

Floresta have made the call to Gimnasia La Plata. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Floresta Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Daniel Troiano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at Floresta

Marco Antônio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Floresta agree a free transfer for Igor Carvalho

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Market

Vitor Santos steps up from the Floresta academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vitor Santos 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.

Market

Floresta promote Maestro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maestro 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.

Squad

The formation has left Bruno Veiga behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Floresta will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Rafinha

10 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

The dugout

Renato Cunha on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Renato Cunha after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Market

Talks stall between Floresta and Jupi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

  • Market Experience through the door at Floresta
  • Match Point won or two lost for Floresta?
  • Looking ahead Cedric goes back to face CSA