The Bahia Courier
Match15 Apr 2028
Alejo Veliz leads the rout of America Mineiro
3‑0, and Alejo Veliz took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bahia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Rodrigo Bacidalupe keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bahia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Ronaldo keeps Bahia in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
A new deal for Matheus Cavalcante
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Match15 Apr 2028
Bahia make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bahia have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Bahia
Caio Alexandre 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Rodrigo Nestor 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.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Graduation day at Bahia
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A masterclass from Santiago Ramos Mingo
Marked 8.82 — 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
- Market One of our own: Doidinho joins the Bahia first team
- Market Guilherme Xavier steps up from the Bahia academy
- Market Bahia promote Júnior Gomes from within