Daniel Rocha

Defensive Midfielder - Vasco da Gama U18
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Daniel Rocha

490 Edition

The Vasco da Gama Courier

17 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Pedro Teixeira out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vasco da Gama lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Santa Cruz come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Vasco da Gama did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Not going: André Costa stays at Vasco da Gama

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Parnahyba had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

João Pacheco 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 Vasco da Gama can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Retrô join the queue for Mateus Xavier

Add another name to the list: Retrô have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mateus Xavier. The answer from Vasco da Gama has not changed — yet.

Squad

A falling-out at Vasco da Gama

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mycael

Vasco da Gama asked and West Ham United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Vasco da Gama training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo 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.

Transfer targets

Vasco da Gama ask about Mikel Santos

A loan enquiry to Racing Club: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
446 Edition

The Vasco da Gama Courier

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Miguel Silva has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vasco da Gama they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Vasco da Gama

Lorenzzo 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.

Squad

Words at Vasco da Gama training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Sosa 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.

Market

Vasco da Gama promote Daniel Rocha from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Rocha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Lucas Monteiro joins the Vasco da Gama first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lucas Monteiro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Vasco da Gama promote Marcelo Neves from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Neves has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Loan watch

Wesley Monteiro has seen enough of Porto Velho

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vasco da Gama, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Anderson Brum

“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.

The dugout

Thiago Medeiros asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

  • The dugout Akiles gets picked when it counts
  • The dugout Yan is still being punished for one mistake
  • Squad The penny has dropped for Riquelme