Marcelo Monteiro

Right Midfielder - Bahia U18
6 Jul 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Marcelo Monteiro

113 Edition

The Bahia Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Everton Ribeiro out for 98 days

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

The dugout

Everton Ribeiro frozen out at Bahia

This is not rotation. Everton Ribeiro has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Bahia is pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Bahia

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

Squad

Michel Araújo 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.

Match

Bahia see off Avaí

Three points for Bahia, 1‑0 the final word against Avaí in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Marcelo Monteiro out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Marcelo Monteiro, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Emersonn

A mark of 7.94, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Willian José

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

A satisfied Henrique Cavalcante

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Henrique Cavalcante could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
90 Edition

The Bahia Courier

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

9 matches without a win for Bahia

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Bahia are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Everton Ribeiro yet — 8.18

At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Only the photograph left for Rafa Silva

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rafa Silva will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bahia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Bahia — 7.52

1 for Jean Lucas, marked 7.52, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match

The run at home goes on for Bahia

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Tempers go at Bahia

Jean Lucas 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Bahia

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bahia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michel Araújo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Bahia promote Victor Nardo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Victor Nardo 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