The Volta Redonda Post
Market8 Feb 2027
Alan agrees terms with Lokomotivi
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Volta Redonda people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Volta Redonda
Gabriel Pereira 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Daniel Teixeira steps up from the Volta Redonda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Teixeira 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Alex Muralha stays at Mirassol as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Volta Redonda will try again when the window opens; Mirassol may not be selling by then.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Volta Redonda
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dener was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Juninho Ramos
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juninho Ramos, and the manager let it.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Volta Redonda pull $4.3M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Wallace knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Wallace trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market8 Feb 2027
Marcos Vinicius linked with a move away
The name of Marcos Vinicius keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Volta Redonda say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad Gabriel Pereira walks taller at Volta Redonda
- The dugout Kauã Ubá gets picked when it counts
- Market The window shut and Marcos Vinicius is still in the building