The Sampaio Correa Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Sampaio Correa
Nirley and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Sampaio Correa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Renan Oliveira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Sep 2026
Sampaio Correa come up short against Boa
Boa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alex Sandre is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alex Sandre has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Sampaio Correa and Mateus Pasinato
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sampaio Correa, another week without a signature from Mateus Pasinato.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Thiago Pacheco left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Jardson
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Jardson has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sampaio Correa have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Joãozinho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Lucão knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lucão trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Lucão left out for tactical reasons at Sampaio Correa
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Lucão
- Looking ahead Sampaio Correa travel to Santa Cruz