The Ypiranga Courier
Squad9 Nov 2026
Cléo Silva damages knee ligaments — 118 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 118 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Raúl Quiroga yet — 8.01
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ypiranga
Luiz Daniel 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Raúl Quiroga among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Raúl Quiroga on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ypiranga and Tombense.
Match7 Nov 2026
Raúl Quiroga sends Ypiranga past Tombense
It finished 4‑2, and it was Raúl Quiroga’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ypiranga.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
No hiding place for David Ospina
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Ospina, and the manager let it.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Juan Ignacio Quatrocchi
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Guilherme Barbosa joins the Ypiranga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guilherme Barbosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Estevão
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- The terraces The away end at Tombense goes home happy
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad Juan Ignacio Quatrocchi scores his first for Ypiranga