From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Goiânia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Goiânia
Matheus Carvalho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Besouro was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Ribeiro, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” João Borges after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Goiânia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Igor Guimarães 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Goiânia?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Rio Branco? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Daniel Amaral keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Goiânia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matheus Andrade
119 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Goiânia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Goiânia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Davi
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
André Freitas is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Goiânia has been clear about where André Freitas stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Goiânia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wesley Farias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Matheus Carvalho keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Goiânia say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matheus Carvalho 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Portuguesa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by João Borges to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Besouro beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Goiânia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Rodrigues was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Márcio Peixoto 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Matheus Souza may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad9 Nov 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Goiânia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market9 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luken Serrano signs something — a contract at Goiânia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
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The dugout
Davi left out for tactical reasons at Goiânia
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The dugout
André Freitas asks for a word with the manager
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Player ratings
The afternoon ran through Zico
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Upbeat
Match2 Nov 2026
Goiânia up to position 2
24 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Goiânia board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Goiânia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Besouro. 2‑1 against Mixto, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
The big one: Portuguesa come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Goiânia will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Besouro was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 109% of the Goiânia 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Júnior Nardo 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luken Serrano. 3‑1 against Nova Iguaçu, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Zico at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Goiânia.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Goiânia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wesley Farias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, João Borges could afford to be generous.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wesley Farias, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Goiânia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Goiânia
Júnior Nardo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Fábio Rangel is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Davi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davi, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Goiânia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wesley Farias 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: João Borges on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The chances came and went for Luken Serrano
10 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Goiânia
Júnior Nardo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Igor Guimarães 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Goiânia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Luken Serrano
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Goiânia would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Davi a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Goiânia. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad12 Oct 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Goiânia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The penny has dropped for Luis Felipe
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Goiânia the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Goiânia
Matheus Carvalho 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to André Freitas, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 102% of everything Goiânia earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.88 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Goiânia had the best player on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Wesley Farias 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Márcio Peixoto 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Rafael Ribeiro is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Goiânia has been clear about where Rafael Ribeiro stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Luken Serrano to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Água Santa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Goiânia
Matheus Carvalho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
Pouso Alegre left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Willian Rocha
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market28 Sep 2026
The name of Daniel Amaral keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Goiânia say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Davi
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Davi has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Davi has written the date down.
Market28 Sep 2026
Goiânia have let the market know Leonardo Oliveira can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
14 days out for Cristiano Soares after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Goiânia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Goiânia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Vitor Barbosa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Goiânia.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
César Rodrigues was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Davi 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
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, João Borges could afford to be generous.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luken Serrano’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
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Player ratings
Luken Serrano leaves them behind him
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Player ratings
The one thing Zico could not do
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The dugout
André Freitas knocks on the manager’s door
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Cristiano Soares out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Goiânia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Sep 2026
André Freitas 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 Goiânia can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
André Freitas: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Goiânia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Davi 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 Goiânia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Zico. 1‑0 against Goianésia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Goiânia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wesley Farias 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, João Borges could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
28 days out for Cristiano Soares after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Goiânia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Goiânia
Davi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Goiânia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wesley Farias 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Douglas Carvalho is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matheus Carvalho’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Goiânia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
35 days out for Cristiano Soares after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Goiânia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Júnior Nardo 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vitor Barbosa among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Vitor Barbosa on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Goiânia and Boavista.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vitor Barbosa scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Boavista, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Luis Felipe
“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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Zico ran the game
Chances created: 11. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Cristiano Soares out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Goiânia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Portimonense have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luken Serrano. The answer from Goiânia has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Goiânia
Júnior Nardo 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Ceilândia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Davi
“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.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Goiânia
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
A test against the best for Goiânia
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Goiânia bow out of the cup
Vila Nova go through and Goiânia go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Fábio Rangel, 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matheus Carvalho 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luken Serrano, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.31 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Davi behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Goiânia will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
6‑0, and Vitor Barbosa took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Goiânia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Zico scores twice — 9.53
Two goals and a mark of 9.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.24 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Douglas Carvalho at 20 — 7.70
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Douglas Carvalho did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luken Serrano and Goiânia agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Goiânia
Matheus Carvalho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Goiânia and Capital, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Goiânia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitor Barbosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Goiânia
Matheus Carvalho 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vitor Barbosa 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Goiânia a point
Minute 92, against Maricá, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Freitas commits to Goiânia for another 1 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Aug 2026
It needed Zico to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Maricá, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Luken Serrano 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 Goiânia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
João Borges: “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 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The first one for Zico
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Goiânia have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.