The Maracanã Sentinel
Squad14 Dec 2026
The knee: Gleidson out for 122 days
122 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maracanã lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Zé Artur honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Maracanã had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Maracanã
Lucas Mota 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Nova Iguaçu tell Maracanã: Matheus Miranda is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Bruno Camilo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Maracanã
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leomir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Dec 2026
A long bet from Maracanã on Pedro Lopes
He is 18, and nobody at Maracanã signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market14 Dec 2026
Maracanã bring in an old head
Guilherme Lazaroni is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market14 Dec 2026
Experience through the door at Maracanã
Stefanos Gounaridis arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.