Rafa

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Flamengo U18
2 Sep 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Rafa

90 Edition

The Flamengo Herald

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Germano out for 81 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Flamengo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Jorge Carrascal keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Flamengo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Whatever happens, Flamengo do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Boardroom

Flamengo tie José Borges down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Squad

Giorgian De Arrascaeta 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.

Squad

Léo Ortiz 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Flamengo

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Player ratings

Vitão was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.88. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market

Flamengo promote Leão from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Leão 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