Bragantino U18

Brazilian Série A U18
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process
29 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matheus Fernandes breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Cleiton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Guzmán Rodríguez 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

Yuri Leles gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

When it matters, Lucas Barbosa plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Isidro Pitta question follows Bragantino around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Isidro Pitta’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Matheus Fernandes out for 91 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bragantino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Cleiton 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juninho Capixaba 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.

Market

One of our own: Alex Figueiredo joins the Bragantino first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Figueiredo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Marcos Batista steps up from the Bragantino academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcos Batista has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Bragantino promote Douglas Bezerra from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Douglas Bezerra has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Sérgio Figueiredo joins the Bragantino first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sérgio Figueiredo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Gustavo Neves gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gustavo Neves is on it.

The dugout

A door opens for Cleiton

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

27 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Matheus Fernandes out for 100 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bragantino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Juninho Capixaba wants more than Bragantino are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Cleiton 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.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guzmán Rodríguez 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

A promise honoured at Bragantino

Something was said to José Hurtado and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cauê

“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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Juninho Capixaba breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bragantino

Cleiton 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guzmán Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Agustín Fontana gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

José María Herrera gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say José María Herrera is on it.

The dugout

Gabriel asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

25 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Juninho Capixaba breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Bragantino say no — this time

The offer from Haras El Hodoud for Gustavo Reis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Cleiton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guzmán Rodríguez 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

Alix Vinicius gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Lucas Barbosa gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lucas Barbosa is on it.

In brief

  • The dugout Richard knocks on the manager’s door
  • Market Tiago Volpi linked with a move away
  • The dugout The manager makes Cleiton a promise
  • Squad Yuri Leles has had enough of the bench
24 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

31 days out for Juninho Capixaba after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bragantino will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Bragantino turn down Ceará for Praxedes

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Cleiton signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cleiton and Bragantino agree another 5 years.

Squad

Cleiton 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Guzmán Rodríguez 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

Lucas Barbosa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Gustavo Neves gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gustavo Neves is on it.

Market

The Isidro Pitta talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bragantino know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

The clock runs on Fernando's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief

23 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Juninho Capixaba out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bragantino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Bragantino tear Fortaleza apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Fortaleza, and it could have been more.

Squad

A day Henry Mosquera will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Pedro Bicalho is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Bragantino will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Transfer targets

No deal for Zé Lucas at that price

Bragantino offered $1.4M; Cruzeiro said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Bragantino rebuffed over Zé Lucas

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cruzeiro have kept their man, and Bragantino go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Cleiton 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Henry Mosquera

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.79, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market

Ceará join the queue for Praxedes

Add another name to the list: Ceará have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Praxedes. The answer from Bragantino has not changed — yet.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Eric Ramires at his very best
  • Player ratings Isidro Pitta was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Richard
22 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Yuri Alves out for 52 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bragantino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Mirassol tell Bragantino: Negueba is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Bragantino pay Mirassol $3.3M for a proper upgrade

Mirassol did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.3M for Igor Formiga, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.3M for Zé Lucas

Bragantino have gone to Cruzeiro with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Lucca Prior at that price

Bragantino offered $1.4M; Fortaleza said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Real improvement from Gustavo Reis at Bragantino

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustavo Reis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings

Eric Ramires beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho Capixaba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bragantino

Gabriel 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.

In brief

  • Match A bad afternoon for Bragantino against Bahia
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Gabriel
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
21 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tiago Volpi keeps Bragantino 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.

Market

Bragantino say no — this time

The offer from Mirassol for Vinicinho was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

Door shut on André Clovis

Bragantino asked and Académico de Viseu said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Bragantino make their move for Igor Formiga

$3.3M on the table at Mirassol. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Bragantino bid $1.4M for Lucca Prior

The offer went to Fortaleza this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Business is business: Eduardo Sasha goes

Atlético Mineiro paid $2.7M and Bragantino took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Bragantino sell Wallace Yan for $1.8M

Wallace Yan has left for São Paulo in a $1.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match

Bragantino make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

At last: Bragantino win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Atlético Mineiro. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bragantino turn down Internacional for Henry Mosquera

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Bragantino spend $8.1M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $8.1M has been paid because Pedro Bicalho is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Match

The wait goes on for Bragantino

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Eduardo Sasha honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Bragantino had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Market

Internacional join the queue for Vinicinho

Add another name to the list: Internacional have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vinicinho. The answer from Bragantino has not changed — yet.

Market

Rodriguinho moves on

Atlético Mineiro pay $3.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gustavo Neves

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

Transfer targets

Bragantino baulk at the price for Raí Ramos

Juventude wanted more than $230.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief

19 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Bragantino turn down Cruzeiro for Eduardo Sasha

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Bragantino bid $8.1M for Pedro Bicalho

The offer went to Qarabag this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Wallace Yan agrees terms with Mirassol

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bragantino people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

No deal for Martinelli at that price

Bragantino offered $6.3M; Fluminense said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

The dugout

Alix Vinicius keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bragantino may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

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

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

Transfer targets

Juventude tell Bragantino: Raí Ramos is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Bragantino make their move for Renê

$250.0K on the table at Fluminense. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Bragantino

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

In brief

18 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

6 unbeaten for Bragantino

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bragantino did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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.

Player ratings

Eric Ramires was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Bragantino keep their word to Tiago Volpi

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Player ratings

Isidro Pitta stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Bragantino support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Agustín Sant'Anna gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Bragantino share the spoils with Internacional

A 1‑1 draw with Internacional leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

  • The dugout Vinicinho asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market The Tiago Volpi talk will not go away
17 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tiago Volpi keeps Bragantino 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Eduardo Sasha yet — 8.15

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

The wait goes on for Bragantino

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Bragantino

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Eduardo Sasha is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Bragantino refuse to lose to Palmeiras

A point taken on 96 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Match

Eduardo Sasha rescues a point for Bragantino

It needed Eduardo Sasha to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Palmeiras, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Vinicinho asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

16 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Henry Mosquera's — 8.75

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.75, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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.

Squad

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

Player ratings

Gustavo Neves beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Tiago Volpi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Bragantino and Sport Recife take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Carlos Freitas on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Carlos Freitas after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Lucas Barbosa plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Henry Mosquera question follows Bragantino around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Henry Mosquera’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

15 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Gustavo Marques 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho Capixaba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Bragantino make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Bragantino refuse to lose to Vasco da Gama

A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alix Vinicius

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

Match

Bragantino share the spoils with Vasco da Gama

A 1‑1 draw with Vasco da Gama leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Carlos Freitas chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

When it matters, Agustín Fontana plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isidro Pitta

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Eduardo Sasha, 34, rolls back the years — 8.13

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.13 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Fabrício keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bragantino may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Juninho Capixaba wants more than Bragantino are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Henry Mosquera

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Eric Ramires 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

The manager makes an example of Agustín Fontana

“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

Defences have started doubling up on Eduardo Sasha

8 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Bragantino keep their word to Eduardo Sasha

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

13 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Eduardo Sasha takes the afternoon — 9.37

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduardo Sasha provided it, and the 9.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Dudu says Bragantino went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Henry Mosquera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Juninho Capixaba 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Gabriel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Bragantino supporters have found a favourite in Gustavo Neves

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Gustavo Neves has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Eduardo Sasha the difference as Bragantino beat Mirassol

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eduardo Sasha. 2‑0 against Mirassol, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriel

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

The dugout

A promise honoured for Matheus Fernandes

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bragantino told Matheus Fernandes something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

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The dugout

Gabriel says Bragantino went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

4 matches without a win for Bragantino

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bragantino are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

Squad

Gustavo Reis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Juninho Capixaba 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 Vinicinho

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

Match

Bragantino come up short against Botafogo

Botafogo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Fabrício has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings

Henry Mosquera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Gustavo Marques signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gustavo Marques and Bragantino agree another 4 years.

Squad

Gustavo Marques 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Yuri Leles at Bragantino

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yuri Leles is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings

José María Herrera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bragantino against Corinthians

1‑2 to Corinthians, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Bragantino lose Lucas Barbosa

27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Matheus Fernandes in the eights

A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Gustavo Marques'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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Carlos Freitas to a room that had heard them before.

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5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Tiago Volpi

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Agustín Sant'Anna makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

Match

Whatever happens, Bragantino 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho Capixaba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bragantino

Gabriel 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.

Player ratings

Eric Ramires was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Vinicinho knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bragantino, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Carlos Freitas chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Bragantino

Corinthians top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

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28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Gustavo Neves runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Agustín Fontana

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

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Bragantino had all but put away. Grêmio will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

9 new faces, and Bragantino 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.

Player ratings

Henry Mosquera was the difference for Bragantino

Marked 7.60. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Bragantino share the spoils with Grêmio

A 1‑1 draw with Grêmio leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Carlos Freitas was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bragantino dressing room was either.

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The Bragantino Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bragantino come from 3 down to beat Juventude

At 3 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. Bragantino found something the first half had given no notice of, and Juventude could not hold what they had.

Player ratings

Both of them Eduardo Sasha's — 9.33

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Henry Mosquera scores twice — 8.42

Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Henry Mosquera sends Bragantino past Juventude

It finished 4‑3, and it was Henry Mosquera’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bragantino.

Squad

Real improvement from Gustavo Reis at Bragantino

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustavo Reis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques 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.

Squad

Alix Vinicius 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

Agustín Sant'Anna gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

A satisfied Carlos Freitas

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑3, Carlos Freitas could afford to be generous.

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The Bragantino Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tiago Volpi stands alone

11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Both of them Henry Mosquera's — 9.02

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Gabriel 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.

Match

Late, late show earns Bragantino a point

Minute 86, against Santos, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriel

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

Match

Honours even between Bragantino and Santos

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Carlos Freitas on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Carlos Freitas after the 3‑3 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Vinicinho does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

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6 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Bragantino

São Paulo will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bragantino were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and Henry Mosquera takes the afternoon — 9.18

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Henry Mosquera provided it, and the 9.18 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Gustavo Neves was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Eduardo Sasha yet — 8.88

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho Capixaba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Gustavo Marques and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

One of those days for Eric Ramires

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Henry Mosquera gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Carlos Freitas kept it short after the 4‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Bragantino

0‑2 against Internacional, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Henry Mosquera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Dudu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Eric Ramires 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

Guzmán Rodríguez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Isidro Pitta reaches 50 goals

50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Isidro Pitta

Marked 8.09 — 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bragantino

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

Isidro Pitta rescues a point for Bragantino

It needed Isidro Pitta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Vitória, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

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The Bragantino Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Yuri Alves sends Bragantino through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Yuri Alves obliged against Atlético Mineiro. 3‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Bragantino.

Player ratings

Yuri Alves, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.58

A mark of 8.58 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Eduardo Sasha yet — 8.48

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.48 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Rodriguinho beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Dudu 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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 Tiago Volpi

“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.

The terraces

One of their own: Yuri Alves

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Eduardo Sasha the difference as Bragantino beat Fortaleza

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eduardo Sasha. 2‑0 against Fortaleza, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Bragantino march on in the cup

Nautico are out and Bragantino go through, 5‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Henry Mosquera

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

3 goals for Bruninho

The match ball belongs to Bruninho, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

Tempers go at Bragantino

Dudu 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bruninho

Marked 9.64 — 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.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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

Vinicinho gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The terraces

One of their own: Bruninho

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Agustín Fontana

Marked 8.68 — 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Eduardo Sasha, 34, rolls back the years — 8.81

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.81 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Richard arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Richard has, at Bragantino, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Juninho Capixaba stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Juninho Capixaba and Bragantino agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Dudu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Bragantino find a way past Atlético Mineiro

Atlético Mineiro made Bragantino work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Isidro Pitta gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Bragantino promote Renato Moura from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Renato Moura has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Bragantino promote Thiago Gomes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thiago Gomes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Matheus Carvalho joins the Bragantino first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matheus Carvalho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Gustavo Neves breaks Cruzeiro hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Gustavo Neves scored in the 88th minute, Cruzeiro had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Bragantino took the lot.

Market

Juninho Capixaba 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 Bragantino hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tiago Volpi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tiago Volpi and Bragantino agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Bragantino

Matheus Fernandes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juninho Capixaba 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 terraces

Bragantino supporters have found a favourite in Vinicinho

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vinicinho has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Gustavo Neves the difference as Bragantino beat Cruzeiro

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gustavo Neves. 1‑0 against Cruzeiro, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

José María Herrera beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

24 months and counting on Tiago Volpi

Still no offer on the table, and Tiago Volpi’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Gustavo Neves
  • Squad 9 new faces, and Bragantino are still learning each other
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict