Malvado

Goalkeeper - Brasil de Pelotas U18
13 Jan 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Malvado

112 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Brasil de Pelotas tear Azuriz apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Azuriz, and it could have been more.

Market

Wesley Barbosa 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 The request is on a desk at Brasil de Pelotas, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

Brasil de Pelotas are 2 in the table and the town has noticed

44 points, a place near the top and a ground that has begun to enjoy itself. Nobody will say the word out loud, which is the surest indication that everybody is thinking it.

Market

Guilherme Freitas is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Brasil de Pelotas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Brasil de Pelotas

Francisco Alonso 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.

Match

Brasil de Pelotas make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Renato Rocha is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Douglas Cunha 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Lucas Giménez

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

Back issues
90 Edition

The Brasil de Pelotas Sentinel

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Vinícius Lopes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Brasil de Pelotas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Wesley Pacheco

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Wesley Pacheco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brasil de Pelotas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

A new deal for José Nardo

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad

A falling-out at Brasil de Pelotas

Francisco Alonso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Brasil de Pelotas

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

One of our own: Danilo Borges joins the Brasil de Pelotas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danilo Borges is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Brasil de Pelotas promote Éder Araujo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Éder Araujo 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.

Market

Malvado steps up from the Brasil de Pelotas academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Malvado 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.

Boardroom

Brasil de Pelotas let a promise lapse

A date was given and it came and went. Nobody upstairs will call it a broken promise, and nobody downstairs will call it anything else for a long time.

In brief