The Vasco da Gama Courier
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Matheus França runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Navbahor join the queue for Cauan Barros
Add another name to the list: Navbahor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cauan Barros. The answer from Vasco da Gama has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nuno Moreira signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nuno Moreira and Vasco da Gama agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vasco da Gama
Nuno Moreira 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Paulo 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Vasco da Gama come up short against Santos
Santos left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Léo Jardim
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Léo Jardim, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Tchê Tchê
Still no offer on the table, and Tchê Tchê’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Claudio Spinelli could not find anything
4.48. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Robert Renan
- Market Still no ink between Vasco da Gama and Paulinho
- Market The shop window has André in it