Peu

Defensive Midfielder - Sampaio Correa
26 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Peu

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The Sampaio Correa Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Sampaio Correa boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Niltinho breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Klebinho 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 Correa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vitinho 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Anderson Lessa

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

The dugout

Daniel Mazerochi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sampaio Correa 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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes Dyogo Alves a promise
  • The dugout Peu asks for a word with the manager
  • Squad The penny has dropped for Dyogo Alves
Back issues
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The Sampaio Correa Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Cavi damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.

The terraces

The mood at Sampaio Correa has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

131 days out for Niltinho after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sampaio Correa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Sampaio Correa

0‑4 against Ceará, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Dyogo Alves keeps Sampaio Correa in it on his own

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.

The dugout

Peu: 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.” Sampaio Correa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sampaio Correa

Klebinho 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 Lucão

“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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Sampaio Correa

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

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The Sampaio Correa Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

12 saves: Vinícius Fávero was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

A move Felipe Scheibig 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. Felipe Scheibig is living that version at Sampaio Correa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Alex Sandre signs a new deal

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

Squad

A falling-out at Sampaio Correa

Gustavo Furtado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Nikollas Sena’s goal not enough for Sampaio Correa

Nikollas Sena scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Atletico Goianiense, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Sampaio Correa and Felipe Scheibig are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Marcos Amaral answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Peu

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

Player ratings

Daniel Mazerochi 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.

In brief