Ancelmo

Central Midfielder - Santa Cruz
4 Sep 2026
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Marked for Ancelmo

5 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match29 Aug 2026

Robinho leads the rout of Oeste

3‑0, and Robinho took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Santa Cruz tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Vintage Renato — 8.18

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market31 Aug 2026

Flora come back empty-handed

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Santa Cruz

Matheus Régis 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Robinho 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.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Marlon Douglas will join Santa Cruz for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Marlon Douglas has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Santa Cruz have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Robinho at his very best

Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Santa Cruz.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Alex Ruan beats them one at a time

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 dugout31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Ancelmo

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

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

Felipe Alves keeps Santa Cruz in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Martín Quezada signs for Sampaio Correa while still at Santa Cruz

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Martín Quezada has agreed terms with Sampaio Correa for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market24 Aug 2026

Martín Quezada has one foot out of the door

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Santa Cruz

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

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Santa Cruz beat the market to Yago Santos from America Mineiro

America Mineiro will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yago Santos has pre-agreed a move to Santa Cruz, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Santa Cruz against Nautico

0‑1 to Nautico, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Willian Júnior

“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 dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Cristiano Moreira left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Eurico Lima 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Aug 2026

The small margins put Santa Cruz out

Out, 0‑6 to Internacional, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Felipe Alves stands alone

7 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

A cup hiding at Internacional leaves Santa Cruz explaining themselves

0-6, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Santa Cruz

Robinho 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.

Match12 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Santa Cruz and Internacional in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Santa Cruz agree a free transfer for André

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Eron

Marked 8.09 — 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

Nobody could get near Matheus Régis

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Santa Cruz dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief