Marked for Ademir
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Everton Ribeiro
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bahia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match14 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Bahia's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bahia has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Bahia
Erick Pulga 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Caio Alexandre 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Everton Ribeiro
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bahia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Fernando Gabriel out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bahia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Bahia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bahia are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jean Lucas 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 Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Jael
“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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.32. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Bahia and Ceará cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ceará came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Alejo Veliz’s exile
6 goals in 12 games at Rosario Central — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Bahia updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Nothing got past Gilberto
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The pass was always on for Ademir
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Everton Ribeiro damages knee ligaments — 144 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 144 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Bahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Ramos Mingo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jean Lucas 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 Jean Lucas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
8 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Danilo runs at them all day
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Ademir ran the game
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bahia
Jean Lucas 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Santiago Ramos Mingo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Olivera, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bahia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rodrigo Nestor and Bahia agree another 4 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Caio Alexandre 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Bahia, 1‑0 the final word against São Paulo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ademir
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bahia heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bahia
Caio Alexandre 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Bahia, 1‑0 the final word against Vitória in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Santiago Ramos Mingo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ademir 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
João Paulo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Bahia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jean Lucas and Bahia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jean Lucas, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Ademir's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.