There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Agustín Módica provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Giorgian De Arrascaeta 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Agustín Módica. 2‑1 against Criciuma, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Paquetá'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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Flamengo, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad17 Jul 2028
5 new faces, and Flamengo are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Marked 5.02. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Pedro was one of the reasons people came, and $20.3M does not replace that by itself.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Flamengo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Giorgian De Arrascaeta 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.
The goal that put Cruzeiro ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Flamengo equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flamengo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Giorgian De Arrascaeta 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.