The Mirassol Courier
Match28 Oct 2028
The wait goes on for Mirassol
32 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
The knee: Reinaldo out for 35 days
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mirassol lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom30 Oct 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mirassol
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match28 Oct 2028
A hiding for Mirassol
Beaten 0‑3 by Bahia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
Valsir: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mirassol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Mirassol
Rodrigues 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
A move Lucyo 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. Lucyo is living that version at Mirassol, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words at Mirassol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edson Carioca 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.
Match28 Oct 2028
The goals have deserted Mirassol
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mirassol can tell you which week it ends in.
In brief
- Match No clean sheets in sight for Mirassol
- Boardroom Nobody left the Mirassol dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout Douglas Lopes answers for it