Edson Júnior

Striker - Nautico
23 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Edson Júnior

56 Edition

The Nautico Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Bruno Souza out for 29 days

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

Squad

A fracture rules Alemão out for 71 days

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

Market

Nautico may not be able to give Ramon what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ramon wants continental football; whether Nautico can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nautico

Toró 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.

Player ratings

Juninho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Felipe Saraiva stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Nautico support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Auremir left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Auremir will call it something else in private.

The dugout

No hiding place for Edson Júnior

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

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The Nautico Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Edson Júnior says Nautico 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.

Transfer targets

Nautico make their move for Fabrizio Angileri

$1.5M on the table at Corinthians. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Juninho has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nautico can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nautico

Muriel 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 Nautico

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

Transfer targets

Nautico rebuffed over Alessandro Plizzari

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Venezia have kept their man, and Nautico go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nautico against Juventude

0‑2 to Juventude, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Rodrigo Braga: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Mateus Silva 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

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The Nautico Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Toró runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Arthur keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nautico may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nautico

Muriel 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

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 get the job done against Boa

A 2‑0 win over Boa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Igor Neves

Marked 8.09 — 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Felipe Saraiva

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

The dugout

Rodrigo Braga has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Rodrigo Braga on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Auremir

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

In brief

42 Edition

The Nautico Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Igor Neves's — 9.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Júnior Todinho, 33, rolls back the years — 9.03

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.03 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Benjamín Borasi

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Juninho 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

Nautico see off Parana

Three points for Nautico, 3‑1 the final word against Parana in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Edson Júnior 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Igor Fernandes

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Rodrigo Braga, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Thiago Milanese

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

  • The dugout Auremir asks for a word with the manager
  • Market Antônio is free to find somewhere else
  • Squad Vinícius speaks, and the room listens
39 Edition

The Nautico Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Muriel

There were 8 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.

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

A falling-out at Nautico

Muriel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Mirassol take the points off Nautico

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Júnior Todinho 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

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Rodrigo Braga to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Vinícius was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

The weekend belonged to Júnior Todinho

Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.

The dugout

Dodô 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.

In brief

34 Edition

The Nautico Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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

A falling-out at Nautico

Edson Júnior and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Wellington Nem

“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

  • The dugout Igor Neves has been promised minutes
  • Squad The training reports on Muriel are not good
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Ramon
  • Squad Word from the training ground: Felipe Saraiva
12 Edition

The Nautico Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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

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.

The dugout

Wellington Nem 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 Wellington Nem has written the date down.

The dugout

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

Squad

The training reports on Muriel are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

In brief

2 Edition

The Nautico Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words exchanged at Nautico

Muriel 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.

Market

One of our own: Rafael Santos joins the Nautico first team

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

Market

Carlos Mendes steps up from the Nautico academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Mendes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Eduardo Nardo steps up from the Nautico academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eduardo Nardo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Nautico promote Rodrygo Rangel from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rodrygo 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Nautico

16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief