Dieguinho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Corinthians
7 Dec 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Dieguinho

6 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cruel end for Sport Recife as Corinthians pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Corinthians scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Zakaria Labyad runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Yuri Alberto 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 Corinthians this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gabriel Paulista falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Corinthians find a way past Sport Recife

Sport Recife made Corinthians work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Rodrigo Garro

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Yuri Alberto

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

No hiding place for Gustavo Henrique

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Henrique, and the manager let it.

Squad

Breno Bidon named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Breno Bidon is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Corinthians Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dieguinho

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Cup progress for Corinthians

A 4‑1 win over Oeste, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Both of them Kaio César's — 8.04

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at Corinthians

Yuri Alberto 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kaio César

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Corinthians see off Mirassol

Three points for Corinthians, 1‑0 the final word against Mirassol in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Corinthians training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus Bidu 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

Vitinho was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.04. 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.

Player ratings

Pedro Raul was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.01. 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