This Wednesday (1), at 7:30 pm, in Beira-Rio, São Paulo visits Internacional in a match valid for the 9th round of the Brazilian Championship. The duel marks coach Roger Machado’s reunion with Colorado.
The coach won the 2025 Gauchão with the Rio Grande do Sul team undefeated, ending an eight-year drought without cups.
Roger also boasts other significant marks in Rio Grande do Sul: he is the only coach of the decade to win the state championship with Internacional and Grêmio, in addition to taking Juventude to the 2024 final, a feat that has only happened seven times in the entire Jaconera history.
On two occasions the coach achieved the feat of 16 unbeaten games in Colorado, achieving the club’s longest unbeaten streak in 45 years in the Brasileirão.
The 2019 and 2020 Bahia championships, with Bahia, and the 2017 Mineiro Championship, with Atlético-MG, complete the 51-year-old young coach’s list of titles.
arrived only three weeks ago and is looking to resume the winning path, which he achieved in his first two games in charge of Tricolor Paulista.
Roger Machado in São Paulo
In third place, São Paulo has 16 points in the Brazilian Championship, the same score as Athletico, second place, and Fluminense, fourth place. THE
Palmeiras, the tournament leader, is just three points away and could be overtaken by Tricolor in this round.
Over the next 60 days, the team’s players will enter the field on 18 occasions (nine times in April and nine times in May), with duels valid for the three competitions in which São Paulo is still fighting for the cup – Copa Sudamericana, Copa do Brasil and Campeonato Brasileiro.
