The Botafogo-PB Herald
Squad12 Mar 2029
A muscle injury sidelines Júlio Vaz for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Botafogo-PB will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Leonan frozen out at Botafogo-PB
This is not rotation. Leonan has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Botafogo-PB is pretending otherwise.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Hugo Leonardo 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.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Botafogo-PB
Héctor Lezcano was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Botafogo-PB lose Wesley Monteiro
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Erick 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 Erick is on it.
In brief
- Market The Walter Naranjo talk will not go away
- Market Botafogo-PB and Ykaro are talking past each other
- Market Botafogo-PB put Héctor Lezcano up for sale
- The dugout The manager comes out for Benjamín Portillo