The Santa Cruz Chronicle
Match26 Sep 2026
Santa Cruz tear Barcelona de Ilhéus apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Barcelona de Ilhéus, and it could have been more.
Squad28 Sep 2026
3 goals for Quirino
The match ball belongs to Quirino, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Robinho 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 Santa Cruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Quirino among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Quirino on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Santa Cruz and Barcelona de Ilhéus.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Quirino was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.55. 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Leandro Alves at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Santa Cruz.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Santa Cruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eron 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Ianson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matheus Régis makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
In brief
- The dugout André Neves has his say
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Pedro Costa
- The dugout Ariel Nahuelpán gets picked when it counts