Reinaldo

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20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Reinaldo

28 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Denilson puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mirassol, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mirassol

Diego Lopes 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 Mirassol

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

The dugout

Diego Lopes 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fernandinho

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

The dugout

Daniel Borges 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.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Bojan Radulović

Mirassol and Huddersfield Town have settled on $14.1M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Mirassol

0‑6 against Grêmio, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Mirassol sink to position 20

9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Walter

There were 9 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jean Lucas

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

Match

The wait goes on for Mirassol

5 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Mirassol

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mirassol can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Mirassol and Grêmio in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

The dugout

No hiding place for Reinaldo

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

In brief

7 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Walter keeps Mirassol in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

25 days out for Eduardo Rocha after a fracture

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

Squad

A row about effort at Mirassol

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

Match

Mirassol come up short against Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

One of our own: Henrique Barbosa joins the Mirassol first team

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

Market

Mirassol promote Lucas Rangel from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Rangel 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.

The dugout

Samuel Assis answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

The formation has left Mateus Anderson behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Mirassol will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Carlos Alberto dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief