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Marked for Branquinho

94 Edition

The Flamengo Herald

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings15 May 2028

Samuel Lino was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 39. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad15 May 2028

Words exchanged at Flamengo

Jorginho and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match13 May 2028

The run is over for Flamengo

4 matches without defeat, and then Bragantino. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Player ratings15 May 2028

The afternoon belonged to Natanael

A mark of 7.72, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout15 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Danilo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout15 May 2028

When it matters, Samuel Lino plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad15 May 2028

Branquinho signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Branquinho and Flamengo agree another 3 years.

Market15 May 2028

Still no ink between Flamengo and Gabriel Bontempo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Flamengo, another week without a signature from Gabriel Bontempo.

The dugout15 May 2028

Half-satisfied: Cristiano Rodrigues on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

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The Flamengo Herald

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Apr 2028

Gabriel Sara wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Flamengo hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Álvaro Montoro 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 Flamengo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Apr 2028

Flamengo promote Branquinho from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Branquinho 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.

Market10 Apr 2028

Henrique Batista steps up from the Flamengo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henrique Batista 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.

Market10 Apr 2028

Flamengo promote Fábio Araujo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fábio 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.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

When it matters, Jorginho plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

The manager makes Emerson Royal a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Flamengo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Giorgian De Arrascaeta looks at the other side of the line

“I have started watching training differently.” At 33 he has begun the badges, which is how most of the men in the dugout began.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Lessons booked for Álvaro Montoro at Flamengo

Nobody writes a headline about a tutor. Nobody has to be told, either, what happens to a signing who spends two years being the man nobody can talk to at lunch.

In brief