The Maricá Courier
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ceilândia take the points off Maricá
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 ahead21 Sep 2026
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
- Player ratings Pablo Thomaz was unplayable
- The dugout When it matters, Wendel plays
- Looking ahead Matheus Alessandro goes back to face Boavista