The Floresta Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Josepmir Ballón
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Floresta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Floresta
Jhonatan 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Floresta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jemerson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Daniel Bolt
Floresta asked and Londrina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market8 Feb 2027
Renato Farias steps up from the Floresta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Renato Farias 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: José Assis joins the Floresta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. José Assis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Geilson is a square peg at Floresta
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Cedric gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cedric is on it.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Bismark question follows Floresta around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bismark’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Floresta and Guilherme Cerqueira
- The dugout The manager comes out for Caio Mello