Vinicius

Right Back - Santa Cruz
9 Feb 2033
Wednesday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 43 Awards Matches History

Marked for Vinicius

341 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

7 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Feb 2033

Davi Lucas asks to leave Santa Cruz

“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 Feb 2033

Billal Brahimi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Billal Brahimi commits to Santa Cruz for another 2 years.

Squad7 Feb 2033

Words exchanged at Santa Cruz

Billal Brahimi 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.

Squad7 Feb 2033

A row about effort at Santa Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Gabriel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout7 Feb 2033

Juliano 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.

Squad7 Feb 2033

Too much change too quickly at Santa Cruz

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market7 Feb 2033

Santa Cruz buy the years ahead of Lucas Queiroz

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market7 Feb 2033

Rodrigo Cezar linked with a move away

The name of Rodrigo Cezar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Santa Cruz say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout7 Feb 2033

Davi Lucas has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Santa Cruz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
337 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

10 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Jan 2033

The knee: Walace out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Santa Cruz lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout10 Jan 2033

Aldhy Valencia says Santa Cruz went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2033

Santa Cruz rebuffed over Gustavo Mancha

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Goianiense have kept their man, and Santa Cruz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad10 Jan 2033

Words exchanged at Santa Cruz

Billal Brahimi 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.

Squad10 Jan 2033

A row about effort at Santa Cruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Gabriel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout10 Jan 2033

The manager makes an example of Walace

“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.

Squad10 Jan 2033

Too much change too quickly at Santa Cruz

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market10 Jan 2033

Vinicius brings the grey hairs Santa Cruz lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market10 Jan 2033

Rodrigo Cezar linked with a move away

The name of Rodrigo Cezar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Santa Cruz say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

  • The dugout Matías Candia knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout Davi Lucas gets picked when it counts
  • Market The clock does Favela’s negotiating for him
263 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

11 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings11 Aug 2031

Maicon beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match9 Aug 2031

No end in sight to Bragantino's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bragantino has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Words exchanged at Bragantino

José Hurtado 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.

Squad11 Aug 2031

Words at Bragantino training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Barbosa 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.

Match9 Aug 2031

A bad afternoon for Bragantino against Atlético Mineiro

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

The dugout11 Aug 2031

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 Takumi Mitoma to a room that had heard them before.

Market11 Aug 2031

Vinicius told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vinicius has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bragantino.

Market11 Aug 2031

The José Hurtado question follows Bragantino around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with José Hurtado’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead11 Aug 2031

A reunion for Eric Ramires

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bahia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

244 Edition

The Bragantino Courier

31 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Mar 2031

Enzo Pereira breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad31 Mar 2031

José Hurtado 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 Bragantino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Mar 2031

A muscle injury and 16 days out for Matheus Fernandes

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Bragantino will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout31 Mar 2031

news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side

news_b_frozen_out_of_the_side

Squad31 Mar 2031

A row about effort at Bragantino

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maicon was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market31 Mar 2031

Henry Mosquera linked with a move away

The name of Henry Mosquera keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bragantino say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief