Lucas Silva

Left Back - Sampaio Correa
20 May 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Lucas Silva

39 Edition

The Sampaio Correa Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Da Conceição beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Sampaio Correa

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

Squad

Words at Sampaio Correa training over how hard people work

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Lucas Silva

7.28, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sampaio Correa had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Felipe dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

Adriano Rodrigues 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

Cristiano Rodrigues: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Felipe 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 Sampaio Correa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Match

Sampaio Correa and Nautico cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Nautico came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Sampaio Correa Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Sampaio Correa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Santos tell Sampaio Correa: João Pedro is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Alemão is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alemão has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Transfer targets

Sampaio Correa try to borrow Fabrizio Angileri

Corinthians have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Sampaio Correa try to borrow Caio Wesley

Fortaleza have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Edu moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Sampaio Correa than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dimas

“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

Alex Sandre is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad

The dressing room has a star in it

Edu arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.

In brief

22 Edition

The Sampaio Correa Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Alix Vinicius is a medical away from Sampaio Correa

The deal with Bragantino is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sampaio Correa

Murilo 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.

Transfer targets

Sampaio Correa try to borrow Bruno Lopes

Vasco da Gama have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

10 Edition

The Sampaio Correa Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Sampaio Correa

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

The dugout

Paulo Filho 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 99% of the Sampaio Correa income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad

Gui Franca slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Gui Franca is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Leandro Carvalho

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Leandro Carvalho has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sampaio Correa have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

A row about effort at Sampaio Correa

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

In brief

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8 Edition

The Sampaio Correa Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Murilo delivers — 7.46

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Murilo scored, was marked 7.46, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

The step up is real for Peu

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Murilo 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 Sampaio Correa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Andrew Teuten 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.

Match

Sampaio Correa refuse to lose to Santa Cruz

A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Lucas Silva was the difference for Sampaio Correa

Marked 7.64. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

Da Conceição runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Honours even between Sampaio Correa and Santa Cruz

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

Half-satisfied: Cristiano Rodrigues 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