Thomazella

Goalkeeper - Mirassol
7 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Thomazella

28 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

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24 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Reinaldo breaks a bone — 86 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Thomazella hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mirassol can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Mirassol say no — this time

The offer from Londrina for Thomazella 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Denilson

“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

Alesson 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 Mirassol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Denilson linked with a move away

The name of Denilson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mirassol say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Renato Marques still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Mirassol would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

The dugout

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.

Squad

The dressing room has a star in it

Renato Marques arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.

In brief

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The Mirassol Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Reinaldo out for 93 days

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

Market

Chico Kim asks to leave Mirassol

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

The Coritiba deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Rodrigues reports back to Mirassol with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Boardroom

Mirassol go back to the board over Alan Saldivia

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $108.1K — a club that wants Alan Saldivia enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Mirassol walk away from Tobias Figueiredo

$98.0K was the most the club would pay and Fortaleza were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Londrina watching Thomazella

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mirassol have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Mirassol

Georgemy 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alesson

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

The dugout

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

In brief

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The Mirassol Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Reinaldo is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout

Gustavo Cazonatti 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 Oliveira has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mirassol will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Thomazella told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Thomazella has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mirassol.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Negueba

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vitória in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

The Denilson talk will not go away

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

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Rodrigo Rodrigues’s exile

4 goals in 10 games at Cuiabá — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Mirassol updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

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

The dugout

Fernandinho has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Fernandinho has written the date down.

In brief

10 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Mirassol tear Fortaleza apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Fortaleza, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Reinaldo takes the afternoon — 8.40

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Reinaldo provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Alex Muralha says Mirassol 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

José Aldo 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.

Match

The drought breaks for Mirassol

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Fortaleza were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Reinaldo at the heart of a fast Mirassol start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Reinaldo in the middle of it, and Fortaleza unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Alesson 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 Gabriel Pires

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

The dugout

A satisfied Daniel Carvalho

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Daniel Carvalho could afford to be generous.

In brief