The Tuna Luso Courier
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cabralzinho
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tuna Luso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Oct 2026
Tuna Luso are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tuna Luso
Danillo Ribeiro 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Eduardo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 211% of the Tuna Luso income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Saulo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Guilherme Teixeira
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Willie makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Erick Bahia
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Tuna Luso and Manaus
- The dugout Renato Freitas on the point
- The dugout No place in the plan for Matheus Mega