4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cianorte can tell you which week it ends in.
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Caio Tavares chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Caio Suassuna is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Douglas 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jackson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cianorte can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Cianorte are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Caio Tavares after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Igor Pato 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Figueiredo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cianorte know which stage they are at.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Caio Tavares after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Inter de Limeira? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luiz Correia is on it.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Cauã França has, at Cianorte, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Grêmio leaves Cianorte explaining themselves
0-3, 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.
1 for Eduardo, marked 7.63, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of David Junio
A 1‑0 win over Guarani, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Wesley Nardo, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.