Dória

Central Defender - Corinthians
21 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dória

12 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Guilherme Caraguá out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Corinthians lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Corinthians tear Bahia apart

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Corinthians

Yuri Alberto 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

The step up is real for Bahia

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

The terraces

One of their own: Kaio César

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Gustavo Henrique 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.

Player ratings

Kaio César was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

One of those days for Rodrigo Garro

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dória

“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

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4 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Yuri Alberto runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The cup run ends for Corinthians

0‑2 against Fortaleza, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Kano Pillars come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Corinthians did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at Corinthians

Yuri Alberto 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

Gabriel Paulista 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.

Match

Kaio César sends Corinthians past Ceará

It finished 3‑1, and it was Kaio César’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Corinthians.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Dieguinho

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rodrigo Garro

Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Kaio César was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

2 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Corinthians tear Botafogo apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Botafogo, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Yuri Alberto takes the afternoon — 8.16

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yuri Alberto provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

André turns Vegalta Sendai down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

Dória arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Dória has, at Corinthians, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

KAMAZ come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Corinthians did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Gabriel Paulista wants more than Corinthians are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Yuri Alberto signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yuri Alberto commits to Corinthians for another 5 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Corinthians

Yuri Alberto 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.

Market

Corinthians promote Bruno Araujo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Araujo 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.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Corinthians training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Rodrigo Garro was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings A masterclass from Memphis Depay