Luis Morgillo

Central Defender - Fortaleza
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luis Morgillo

26 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Fortaleza

Gabriel Fuentes 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.

Loan watch

9 goals on loan for Calebe

23 appearances at Internacional and the goals keep coming. Fortaleza are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Tobias Figueiredo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vinícius Silvestre

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

The dugout

The manager makes Lucas Sasha a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Fortaleza. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

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

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Gabriel Fuentes 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 Fortaleza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Paulinho

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Words at Fortaleza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manoel 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pedro Henrique

“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.

Squad

Home is on Luis Morgillo's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Fortaleza are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

The Nathan Fogaça story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nathan Fogaça signs something — a contract at Fortaleza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Talks stall between Fortaleza and Luan Freitas

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

The manager makes Manoel a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Fortaleza. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Fortaleza put Néris up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Néris may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

16 Edition

The Fortaleza Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

João Ricardo keeps Fortaleza in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Juan Fidelis breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No end in sight to Fortaleza's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortaleza has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tomás Pochettino 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 Fortaleza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Fortaleza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manoel 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.

Match

Fortaleza caught on 91 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Ceará scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings

Tomás Pochettino beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rodriguinho

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

Match

Fortaleza and Ceará take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief