The Mirassol Courier
Squad19 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Neuton
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mirassol lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Apr 2027
93 days out for Walter after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mirassol will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match17 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Mirassol
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Gianfranco Leiva: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mirassol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Apr 2027
José Aldo 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 Mirassol can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Apr 2027
3 goals for Luiz Araújo
The match ball belongs to Luiz Araújo, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market19 Apr 2027
Georgemy has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mirassol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Apr 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Mirassol and Ceará in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A masterclass from Luiz Araújo
Marked 9.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Mirassol
- Market One of our own: Tanque joins the Mirassol first team
- Market Rodriguinho steps up from the Mirassol academy