Arnaldo

Right Back - Nautico
22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Arnaldo

3 Edition

The Nautico Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Nautico out

Out, 2‑4 to Bragantino, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Júnior Todinho scores twice — 8.54

Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Wenderson delivers — 7.16

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Wenderson scored, was marked 7.16, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ramon

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Muriel 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 Nautico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Wenderson among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Wenderson on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Nautico and Bragantino.

Squad

Words at Nautico training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnaldo 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.

Match

Nautico find a way past Boa

Boa made Nautico work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Júnior Todinho 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Nautico Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Júnior Todinho wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Muriel 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 Nautico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nautico count the cost of losing Toró

34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

1 Edition

The Nautico Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Auremir

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Juninho wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Vinícius signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vinícius and Nautico agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Nautico

Muriel 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

Arnaldo 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

Arnaldo 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

Nautico and Muriel are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Vinícius takes the honours

Marked 7.72 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Nautico had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Nautico share the spoils with Parana

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

In brief