The Sport Recife Courier
Squad9 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Ramon
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sport Recife lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Lucas Moura, 35, rolls back the years — 8.77
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.77 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Jonathan Calleri in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Sport Recife training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Moura 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, Sport Recife do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match7 Aug 2027
Jonathan Calleri sends Sport Recife past Vasco da Gama
It finished 2‑0, and it was Jonathan Calleri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sport Recife.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Luciano signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luciano commits to Sport Recife for another 2 years.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Cauly at his very best
Marked 8.32. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sport Recife.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Marcos Antonio shuts the door
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Alan Franco
- Loan watch Ryan Francisco has seen enough of Alianza Lima
- Market Jean Victor placed on the list