The Vasco da Gama Courier
Squad5 Jan 2032
A fracture rules Antônio Oliveira out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasco da Gama will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Jan 2032
Vasco da Gama finish in position 11
56 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings5 Jan 2032
Lucas Piton beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings5 Jan 2032
A brace, and Alan Lescano takes the afternoon — 8.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alan Lescano provided it, and the 8.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Facundo Colidio is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Vasco da Gama will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
The dugout5 Jan 2032
Bruno Lopes keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vasco da Gama may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Jan 2032
Danilo Lucas 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 The request is on a desk at Vasco da Gama, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Alan Lescano stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Lescano and Vasco da Gama agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Words exchanged at Vasco da Gama
Nuno Moreira 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.
In brief
- Match Alan Lescano the difference as Vasco da Gama beat Criciuma
- Transfer targets The window shuts on the Gabriel Veneno deal
- Player ratings Cauan Barros was on a different afternoon to everybody else