The Bahia Courier
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Cristian Olivera runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Dec 2026
Bahia make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Caio Alexandre 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Victor Hugo moves on
Sampaio Correa pay $77.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Gabriel Xavier gives it away
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Bahia lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Gabriel Xavier's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad21 Dec 2026
When it matters, João Paulo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Bahia and Cruzeiro take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Market Santa Cruz expected to open talks for Caio Suassuna
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Alejo Veliz’s exile
- Market Bahia put Guido Herrera up for sale