The Sport Recife Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rafael keeps Sport Recife in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jonathan Calleri signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan Calleri commits to Sport Recife for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Sport Recife
Jonathan Calleri 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Enzo Díaz wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Sport Recife hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lucas Moura 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Sport Recife find a way past São Paulo
São Paulo made Sport Recife work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Cauly
Marked 8.31 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Sport Recife has picked up the phone to Jonathan Calleri
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Sport Recife and Victor Sá
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sport Recife, another week without a signature from Victor Sá.
In brief
- Player ratings Alan Franco shuts the door
- Market Cédric Soares is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Marcos Antonio shuts the door