The Vasco da Gama Courier
Squad7 Sep 2026
Paulo Henrique 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 Vasco da Gama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Léo Jardim 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Adson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.19. 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 216% of everything Vasco da Gama earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for José Luis Rodríguez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Luis Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The month belongs to Nuno Moreira
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Vasco da Gama have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Match5 Sep 2026
Vasco da Gama share the spoils with Botafogo
A 1‑1 draw with Botafogo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Lucas Piton runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The one thing Andrés Gómez could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Market André leaves for nothing
- Market Walace Falcão leaves for nothing