Marked for Adriano Rodrigues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Luan Polli 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Matheus Albino knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sampaio Correa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Adriano Rodrigues has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Daniel Mazerochi 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gui Franca knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sampaio Correa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Luan Santos is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luan Polli 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The penny has dropped for Luan Polli
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Sampaio Correa the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Adriano Rodrigues has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Mazerochi and Sampaio Correa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gui Franca, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Sampaio Correa have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market3 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Sampaio Correa
Luan Polli arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.