Kaká

Centre Forward - GAS
14 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Kaká

15 Edition

The GAS Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Matheus Barbosa 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 GAS can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at GAS

Zeca 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.

Squad

A row about effort at GAS

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

Match

A bad afternoon for GAS against Sampaio Corrêa

1‑2 to Sampaio Corrêa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Júnior Machado

“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.

Market

Talks stall between GAS and Fernando Freitas

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Antônio Fonseca left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market

Gabriel Silva told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gabriel Silva has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at GAS.

Squad

Mateus Rodrigues is the weekend's best young player

At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

In brief

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The GAS Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Matheus Barbosa puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at GAS, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at GAS

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

Squad

A falling-out at GAS

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

Market

Still no ink between GAS and Fernando Farias

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at GAS, another week without a signature from Fernando Farias.

Squad

A step back for Kaká at GAS

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for David Molina

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. David Molina has come out of that comparison in the side, and GAS have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

  • The dugout Victor Correia gets it from the manager
  • Market The Kaká question follows GAS around
  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Manauara
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Kaká
3 Edition

The GAS Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

GAS out of the cup

Internacional ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

GAS tear Tocantinópolis apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Tocantinópolis, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Kaká scores twice — 8.97

Two goals and a mark of 8.97 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from David Molina at 21 — 7.68

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. David Molina did not need any: 7.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Kaká 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 GAS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at GAS training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Farias 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

One of those days for Kaká

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Zeca at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at GAS.

The dugout

No hiding place for Júnior Machado

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

In brief

  • Market GAS and Fernando Freitas are talking past each other
  • Squad Guga signs on for more
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict