André Assis

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Maricá U18
5 Mar 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for André Assis

8 Edition

The Maricá Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcelo

105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maricá lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

20 days out for André Assis after a fracture

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

Match

4 matches without a win for Maricá

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Maricá are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Maricá

Pablo Thomaz 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.

Match

Ceilândia take the points off Maricá

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Rafael Carioca 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 dugout

Arthur Braga faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Arthur Braga after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Marcelo

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.

Looking ahead

Maricá take on the side everybody is chasing

Boavista arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Maricá Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules André Assis out for 27 days

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

Squad

A row about effort at Maricá

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Dida

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

Match

Maricá rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Aparecidense had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad

Words exchanged at Maricá

Magno Souza 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Pablo Thomaz

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Honours even between Maricá and Aparecidense

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Arthur Braga on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Arthur Braga after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Player ratings

Café beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

6 Edition

The Maricá Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

André Assis breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A row about effort at Maricá

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

Squad

A falling-out at Maricá

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Victor Pereira

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

Squad

The armband comes off Rafael Forster

Maricá will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Market

Talks stall between Maricá and Alexis Quiñónes

“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 makes Caio Vitor a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Maricá. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

The Denilson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Maricá know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Still no signature from Alexis Quiñónes

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Maricá could get for him.

In brief

  • Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Maricá
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Café
5 Edition

The Maricá Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

André Assis breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Dida stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Rafael Carioca pops up at the right end — 7.54

7.54, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

A falling-out at Maricá

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

Player ratings

Pablo Thomaz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Caio Vitor

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Maricá

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

Maricá share the spoils with Capital

A 1‑1 draw with Capital leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Arthur Braga on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief