Caio Suassuna

Striker - Bahia
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Caio Suassuna

21 Edition

The Bahia Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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

Back issues
18 Edition

The Bahia Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jean Lucas damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Bahia

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Palmeiras kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Bahia will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

Caio Suassuna keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bahia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of João Paulo

“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 ratings

Cristian Olivera was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bahia Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jean Lucas

90 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.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ademir takes the afternoon — 8.52

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ademir provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Caio Suassuna: 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.” Bahia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Everaldo out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Everaldo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

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.

Match

Bahia see off Grêmio

Three points for Bahia, 3‑1 the final word against Grêmio in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Rodrigo Nestor
  • Player ratings Gabriel Xavier spends the afternoon fouling
  • The terraces The press have found their man in Ademir
  • The terraces The stand has a song for Ademir