Alesson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Mirassol
26 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alesson

5 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Mirassol

6 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.

Squad

Nathan Fogaça pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

No hiding place for Tiquinho Soares

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Shaylon

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Negueba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

When it matters, Walter plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Mirassol

1‑2 against Internacional, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Both of them Negueba's — 8.48

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.48, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Match

No end in sight to Mirassol's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mirassol has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Mirassol come up short against Botafogo

Botafogo left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Eduardo 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

No hiding place for Willian Machado

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

Player ratings

Denilson was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.50. 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

A day to forget for João Victor

Marked 2.30, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

3 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Walter is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Walter: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Mirassol through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Cruzeiro, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad

Tempers go at Mirassol

Alesson 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

Words at Mirassol training over how hard people work

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

Player ratings

João Victor in the eights

A performance of 8.63 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Chico Kim

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Player ratings

Denilson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Mirassol

6 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.

Match

João Victor rescues a point for Mirassol

It needed João Victor to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Corinthians, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

  • Player ratings Shaylon leaves them behind him
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Walter
  • Market Renato Marques leaves on loan
2 Edition

The Mirassol Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Shaylon's — 8.69

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

João Victor pops up at the right end — 7.67

7.67, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Willian Machado stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Willian Machado and Mirassol agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Mirassol

Alesson 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.

Match

Shaylon among the goals in a wild afternoon

10 goals in one match, Shaylon on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Mirassol and Flamengo.

Squad

Walter 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.

Player ratings

Negueba was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.82. 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

Nathan Fogaça runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Shaylon rescues a point for Mirassol

It needed Shaylon to find the net to bring anything home at all: 5‑5 against Flamengo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief