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Right Back - Sampaio Corrêa
11 Dec 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Everton

62 Edition

The Sampaio Corrêa Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Sampaio Corrêa

8 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.

Market

Vinícius Paulista puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sampaio Corrêa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Juninho signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juninho commits to Sampaio Corrêa for another 2 years.

Match

Sampaio Corrêa cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Jefferson 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 Sampaio Corrêa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Diego Raposo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

No place for Gustavo Furtado in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Gustavo Furtado has his answer from Sampaio Corrêa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gustavo Furtado

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

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Heittor

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Heittor.

In brief

Back issues
43 Edition

The Sampaio Corrêa Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jefferson breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Matheus Lemos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Sampaio Corrêa out of the cup

Sergipe ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

The wait goes on for Sampaio Corrêa

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.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Sampaio Corrêa

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sampaio Corrêa

Deyson Copete 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cavi

“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.

Loan watch

Adriano Rodrigues counts the days

“I watch every Sampaio Corrêa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Barcelona de Ilhéus runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Words at Sampaio Corrêa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gui Franca 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Everton
  • The dugout A promise honoured at Sampaio Corrêa
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
8 Edition

The Sampaio Corrêa Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Matheus Lemos was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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

Deyson Copete 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 Sampaio Corrêa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Alexis Sinisterra would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alexis Sinisterra is living that version at Sampaio Corrêa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Alexis Sinisterra stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexis Sinisterra and Sampaio Corrêa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Everton

A mark of 7.10, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Vinícius Paulista needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Sampaio Corrêa know which stage they are at.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gui Franca

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

The dugout

Henrique Moreira: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Adriano Rodrigues gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Adriano Rodrigues is on it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Sampaio Corrêa Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Everton 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. Everton has, at Sampaio Corrêa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Matheus Lemos beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Gabriel Werner turns down Sampaio Corrêa

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Everton signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Everton and Sampaio Corrêa agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Sampaio Corrêa

Jefferson 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

The run is over for Sampaio Corrêa

4 matches without defeat, and then Parnahyba. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

Everton needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Sampaio Corrêa know which stage they are at.

Market

A long bet from Sampaio Corrêa on Juan González

He is 20, and nobody at Sampaio Corrêa signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Henrique Moreira 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.

In brief