The Mirassol Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Chico Kim
111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mirassol lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Reinaldo breaks a bone — 53 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Feb 2027
Denilson linked with a move away
The name of Denilson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mirassol say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Carlos Eduardo 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 Carlos Eduardo is on it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody is after Reinaldo’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Reinaldo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Mirassol have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Alex Muralha 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 Alex Muralha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad Is this Chico Kim’s last season?
- The dugout Chico Kim has been promised minutes
- The dugout Thomazella keeps his manager's vote