Daniel Costa

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30 Sep 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Daniel Costa

84 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Humaitá

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

Squad

Words at Humaitá training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Góes 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.

Boardroom

Nobody arrives at Humaitá until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Humaitá this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Zé Rafael's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Daniel Costa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Igor Fernandes 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 Igor Fernandes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

João Rafael 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 The request is on a desk at Humaitá, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Humaitá

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

Boardroom

Humaitá counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Humaitá now.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gabriel Fernandes

Humaitá asked and Horizonte said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Lucas Góes 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.

Market

Danilo Rangel steps up from the Humaitá academy

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

Market

One of our own: Henrique Fonseca joins the Humaitá first team

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

Market

Humaitá promote Gabriel Viana from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Viana 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.

Squad

No place for Guilherme Assis in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Humaitá are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

50 Edition

The Humaitá Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Humaitá

30 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

10 saves: Arthur was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Humaitá are in real trouble now

Position 16, 1 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

Humaitá taken apart

0‑3 to Águia de Marabá, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at Humaitá

Lucas Góes 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Trator

Humaitá asked and Bragantino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Daniel Costa steps up from the Humaitá academy

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

Market

Humaitá promote Matheus Cavalcante from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matheus Cavalcante 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

Éder Pereira steps up from the Humaitá academy

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

In brief