Iván Cardozo

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Maranhão
17 Sep 2028
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Marked for Iván Cardozo

108 Edition

The Maranhão Herald

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Aug 2028

The knee: Glaycon out for 114 days

114 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maranhão lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The terraces21 Aug 2028

Anger at Maranhão spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market21 Aug 2028

Gabriel Lima hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Maranhão can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near João Prado

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Maranhão

João Prado 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Rômulo is slowing down

At 38, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A row about effort at Maranhão

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kayky Almeida was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

No hiding place for Iván Cardozo

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

The dugout21 Aug 2028

Matheus Queiroz on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Matheus Queiroz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

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The Maranhão Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Maranhão

Júlio Amorim 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.

Boardroom12 Apr 2027

Wages eat 87% of everything Maranhão 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.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Júlio Amorim asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Rafael Mariano has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Rafael Mariano has written the date down.

Market12 Apr 2027

The Talles question follows Maranhão around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Talles’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad12 Apr 2027

A season on the outside for Iván Cardozo

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Maranhão has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

36 Edition

The Maranhão Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Apr 2027

Iván Cardozo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Iván Cardozo has just signed for Maranhão, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Words at Maranhão training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Romisson 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.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Ezequiel 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 Maranhão this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Rafael Mariano 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.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Júnior Farias frozen out at Maranhão

This is not rotation. Júnior Farias has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Maranhão is pretending otherwise.

Squad5 Apr 2027

No place for Iván Cardozo in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Maranhão are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief