Caio Lima

Right Midfielder - Manauara
3 Jul 2029
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Marked for Caio Lima

122 Edition

The Manauara Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match25 Nov 2028

The drought breaks for Manauara

75 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Imperatriz were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

The terraces27 Nov 2028

Supporters organise against the Manauara board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad27 Nov 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pedro Costa

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

Match27 Nov 2028

Manauara are in real trouble now

Position 16, 5 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.

Match27 Nov 2028

The season ends: position 16 for Manauara

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 5 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Léo Souza stands alone

8 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 ratings27 Nov 2028

Caio Lima, 19, steals the show — 7.80

Marked 7.80 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings27 Nov 2028

Vintage Eric Herensperger — 7.81

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout27 Nov 2028

Pedro Costa frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Pedro Costa has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

In brief

Back issues
109 Edition

The Manauara Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Aug 2028

No end in sight to Manauara's wait for a win

66 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Manauara has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Léo Souza keeps Manauara in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match26 Aug 2028

Manauara taken apart

0‑3 to Águia de Marabá, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Boardroom28 Aug 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Manauara

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market28 Aug 2028

Victor Rangel 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 Manauara can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Roberto Peixoto frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Roberto Peixoto has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

No hiding place for Eric Herensperger

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

Squad28 Aug 2028

Words at Manauara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Heitor Silva is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom28 Aug 2028

Doors closed at Manauara

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

91 Edition

The Manauara Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Apr 2028

The wait goes on for Manauara

47 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.

Squad24 Apr 2028

A one-man rearguard from Léo Souza

There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match22 Apr 2028

Manauara cannot find the net

11 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Alfredo 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 Manauara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match22 Apr 2028

Manauara leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Heitor Silva 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.

Match22 Apr 2028

A bad afternoon for Manauara against Altos

0‑2 to Altos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout24 Apr 2028

Cavalo frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Cavalo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

The dugout24 Apr 2028

Rafael Rodrigues faces the questions

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

In brief

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The Manauara Post

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Rafael Rodrigues has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Manauara can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

The Manauara board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad3 Apr 2028

A row about effort at Manauara

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

The dugout3 Apr 2028

Luís Amaral frozen out at Manauara

This is not rotation. Luís Amaral has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Manauara is pretending otherwise.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

Roberto Peixoto knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Manauara, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Luís Silva's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

Cristiano Freitas loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Cristiano Freitas's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Market3 Apr 2028

The shop window has Caio Nardo in it

Manauara have let the market know Caio Nardo can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Manauara answer back

A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.

In brief