Cauly

Central Midfielder - Sport Recife
10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Cauly

8 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Luciano, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Recife

Jonathan Calleri 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Gustavo Miranda at Sport Recife

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustavo Miranda is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lucas Moura

“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.

Player ratings

Cauly runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jonathan Calleri is still paying for one afternoon at Sport Recife

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match

Sport Recife and Mirassol take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Jonathan Calleri

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Gustavo Santana

Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lucas Moura 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

André Silva the difference as Sport Recife beat Corinthians

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: André Silva. 3‑2 against Corinthians, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words at Sport Recife training over how hard people work

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

Ninety minutes of Alan Franco at his very best

Marked 9.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sport Recife.

Squad

Artur 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.

Player ratings

Ferreirinha in the eights

A performance of 8.83 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

André Silva in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Sport Recife pick somebody else ahead of Fidélis

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Cauly

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

3 Edition

The Sport Recife Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Pablo Maia sends Sport Recife through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Pablo Maia obliged against Ceará. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Sport Recife.

Player ratings

Ryan Francisco, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Rafael Toloi was immovable

27 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market

Sport Recife say no — this time

The offer from Orlando Pirates for Ryan Francisco was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Jonathan Calleri 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 Sport Recife this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Cauly the difference as Sport Recife beat Juventude

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cauly. 3‑2 against Juventude, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Artur 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Robert Arboleda

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

Player ratings

Pablo Maia was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.88. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief