Marked for Fernando Teixeira
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces22 Mar 2027
The mood at Boa has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Fernando Teixeira damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Boa
Rodriguinho 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Fernando Teixeira damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Boa
Rodriguinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom15 Mar 2027
Boa still without a manager
14 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Wesley Cunha clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Fernando Teixeira damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 Mar 2027
Boa are in real trouble now
Position 10, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Crisis meeting at Boa
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eduardo Teixeira and Boa agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rodriguinho 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Marcos Aguirre
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
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Boardroom
Boa pay $9.3K to end Wesley Cunha's contract
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The dugout
Rodriguinho is playing like a man with something to prove
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The dugout
Vinicius knocks on the manager's door
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Boa
Vinicius 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Caio Araújo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Boa have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match8 Aug 2026
Renatinho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Paysandu, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcos Viana has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Teixeira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pedro Silva joins the Boa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pedro Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Monteiro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Gabriel Melo in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Boa 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
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Squad
17 new faces, and Boa are still learning each other
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The dugout
Wesley Cunha: “No excuses”
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Valsir