The Rio Branco Courier
Squad14 Dec 2026
A season's verdict on Matheus Dias: the best of his age
Rio Branco have a 19-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.
Market14 Dec 2026
Matheus Nardo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rio Branco, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The paperwork begins on Carlos Junior
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rio Branco have done the hard part with Juventude, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Rio Branco
Victor Ramos 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Rio Branco rebuffed over Felipe Longo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Corinthians have kept their man, and Rio Branco go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Dec 2026
Rio Branco promote Luís Fernandes from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luís Fernandes 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Pedro Rodrigues joins the Rio Branco first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Rodrigues is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Romário 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Too much change too quickly at Rio Branco
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Transfer targets Rio Branco ask about Jorge
- Market The Lucas Macedo story refuses to die
- The dugout Agenor keeps his manager's vote