The Maranhão Herald
Match24 Oct 2026
Maranhão run riot against Tocantinópolis
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match26 Oct 2026
Maranhão refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 22 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Vintage Renan Oliveira — 8.35
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.35, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Maranhão right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Weslley 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 Maranhão this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
The big one: Independência come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Maranhão will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Maranhão training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marquinho 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Marquinho
“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
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Diego Fernandes
- The dugout Eugenio Cardoso does not fit this one