Maluco

Central Defender - Goiânia
12 Dec 2026
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Marked for Maluco

18 Edition

The Goiânia Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad30 Nov 2026

19 days out for Antônio Bezerra after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Goiânia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match30 Nov 2026

Goiânia refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 32 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match28 Nov 2026

Still nobody has beaten Goiânia

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Eduardo Fernandes is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.34 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market30 Nov 2026

Willian Moura wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match28 Nov 2026

Goiânia are at home on the road

4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Goiânia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Willian Amaral 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Eduardo Fernandes the difference as Goiânia beat Porto Velho

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eduardo Fernandes. 2‑0 against Porto Velho, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Willian Silva at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Goiânia.

In brief

  • Match Goiânia at the halfway mark
  • Player ratings Leozinho runs at them all day
  • Squad Maluco in a row with a teammate
Back issues
11 Edition

The Goiânia Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Antônio Bezerra out for 72 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Goiânia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Goiânia

Maluco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Aranha 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Aranha has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Goiânia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Gabriel Davis faces his old club

Luverdense next, and one man in the Goiânia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Willian Amaral story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Willian Amaral signs something — a contract at Goiânia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Renato Rangel knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Renato Rangel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Gabriel Davis looks at the other side of the line

“I have started watching training differently.” At 36 he has begun the badges, which is how most of the men in the dugout began.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Questions about Matheus Tavares on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

9 Edition

The Goiânia Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

Antônio Bezerra breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Up for the corner, and Thiago Araujo delivers — 7.88

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Thiago Araujo scored, was marked 7.88, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Maluco

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market28 Sep 2026

Willian Moura has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Goiânia can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Goiânia

Willian Amaral 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Goiânia get the job done against Pouso Alegre

A 2‑1 win over Pouso Alegre, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Júnior Machado 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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Willian Moura in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Goiânia

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

In brief

  • Match Goiânia hit back inside 4 minutes
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Capitão knocks on the manager's door
8 Edition

The Goiânia Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Antônio Bezerra out for 95 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Goiânia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

A brace, and Eduardo Fernandes takes the afternoon — 8.86

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduardo Fernandes provided it, and the 8.86 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Goiânia

Willian Amaral 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Éder Cavalcante

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match19 Sep 2026

Eduardo Fernandes sends Goiânia past Porto Vitória

It finished 3‑1, and it was Eduardo Fernandes’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Goiânia.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

One of their own: Tigre

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Matheus Tavares ran the middle of the pitch — 6.79

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.79, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Leozinho in the eights

A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Maluco

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

In brief

4 Edition

The Goiânia Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Antônio Bezerra out for 123 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Goiânia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match22 Aug 2026

Goiânia run riot against Ceilândia

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match22 Aug 2026

Goiânia cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Matheus Tavares scored one and made one — 7.95

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.95, and 2 involvements.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Goiânia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Willian Amaral 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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Júnior Correia kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

When it matters, Willian Amaral plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Falcão

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

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The form table has caught Maluco

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief