The Vasco da Gama Courier
Match12 Mar 2027
A European night to remember for Vasco da Gama
1‑0 against Corinthians, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Nathan Fogaça says Vasco da Gama 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Daniel Fuzato keeps Vasco da Gama in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Cuiabano 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 Vasco da Gama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Vasco da Gama training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Piton 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 ratings15 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Brenner at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vasco da Gama.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Cuiabano was immovable
17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Adson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nothing got past Lucas Piton
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 11 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Market Riquelme Avellar leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Vasco da Gama answer back
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Brenner