The Botafogo-SP Courier
The dugout19 Apr 2032
Allan Bahia says Botafogo-SP went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Apr 2032
A falling-out at Botafogo-SP
Pajé and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom19 Apr 2032
14 academy graduates step up at Botafogo-SP
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.
Squad19 Apr 2032
Lucca Prior falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings19 Apr 2032
Lucca Prior runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Apr 2032
One of our own: Mateus Neves joins the Botafogo-SP first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mateus Neves is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Apr 2032
Wesley Machado steps up from the Botafogo-SP academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wesley Machado 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.
Market19 Apr 2032
Tite steps up from the Botafogo-SP academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tite 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.
Market19 Apr 2032
Botafogo-SP promote Matheus Bezerra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matheus Bezerra 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Thomaz
- Boardroom Botafogo-SP counting the cost
- The dugout Interim Coach: “We have to be better”