Erick Daniel

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Maracanã
6 Dec 2026
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Marked for Erick Daniel

17 Edition

The Maracanã Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Bruninho

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Alfredo 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 Maracanã this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Vinicius Wilker stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.42 on the card, and the Maracanã support went home talking about one name.

Squad23 Nov 2026

“I want to play”: Caio Suassuna speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Alfredo dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Half-satisfied: Henrique Correia on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Luiz Felipe knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Maracanã, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Giovanni de Armas

“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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Neto could have had three

9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Maracanã Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Caio Suassuna is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Gualberto 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 Maracanã this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jackson Caucaia is slowing down

At 39, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad12 Oct 2026

This league is too small for Erick Daniel

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Maracanã will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market12 Oct 2026

The ambition of Waldson outgrows Maracanã early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Market12 Oct 2026

Freire brings the grey hairs Maracanã lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market12 Oct 2026

Maracanã bring in an old head

Waldson is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Mateus Manso story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateus Manso signs something — a contract at Maracanã or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

A door opens for William Menezes

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

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  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: Tuna Luso at home
10 Edition

The Maracanã Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both of them Neto's — 8.92

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Diego Sabando

At 21 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

João Borim 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. João Borim has, at Maracanã, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Maracanã

Alfredo 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Time is catching up with Mazinho

Everybody at Maracanã saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 39 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 147% of everything Maracanã earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Juninho 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Jackson Caucaia

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

Market5 Oct 2026

Talks stall between Maracanã and Erick Daniel

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief