Sérgio Monteiro

Striker - América de Natal U18
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Marked for Sérgio Monteiro

158 Edition

The América de Natal Courier

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match4 Aug 2029

The wait goes on for América de Natal

5 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.

Market6 Aug 2029

Only the photograph left for Yuri

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around América de Natal the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Magrão stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Magrão and América de Natal agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Tempers go at América de Natal

Magrão 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.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Words at América de Natal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Maduro 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 targets6 Aug 2029

Santos tell América de Natal: Nadson is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout6 Aug 2029

No hiding place for Leandro Carvalho

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leandro Carvalho, and the manager let it.

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

Wages swallow 110% of the América de Natal income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad6 Aug 2029

América de Natal count the cost of losing Sérgio Monteiro

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

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154 Edition

The América de Natal Courier

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Jul 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pesadelo

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. América de Natal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Cainã: 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.” América de Natal have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market9 Jul 2029

Terms done: Pedro Caracoci is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Imperatriz waiting with a shirt. Nobody at América de Natal is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

Iacovelli due for a América de Natal medical

Everything agreed with Sakaryaspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match7 Jul 2029

No end in sight to América de Natal's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at América de Natal has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Tempers go at América de Natal

Magrão 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.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

América de Natal baulk at the price for Willian Lira

Ceará wanted more than $2.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Sidney 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.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

Door shut on Gustavo Santos

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

In brief