Marked for Cipriano
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
The knee: Martín Lucero out for 148 days
148 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Brusque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
95 days out for Alan Pedro after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brusque will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matheus Nogueira 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Brusque will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Cipriano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brusque 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against São Bernardo in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mateus Pivô’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market16 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Brusque, another week without a signature from Lautaro Grosso.
Market16 Nov 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Lautaro Grosso is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
50 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Brusque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brusque this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Lucas Moura
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A move Alex Payares would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alex Payares is living that version at Brusque, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Victor Tavares has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wesley Gomes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Cipriano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brusque 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Botafogo-PB in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Brusque have gone and got theirs early.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
82 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Brusque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Judson gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Judson has just signed for Brusque, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jean Carlos and Brusque agree another 1 years.
Match12 Sep 2026
Brusque cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match12 Sep 2026
Londrina left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Fernando Correia after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Cipriano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brusque 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.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Leandro Soares, whose 6 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The knee: Rafael Furlan out for 104 days
104 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Brusque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match22 Aug 2026
6‑0, and Leandro Soares took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Brusque tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matheus Nogueira 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Brusque and Retrô in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match18 Aug 2026
Ponte Preta left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Cipriano
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
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Player ratings
Mateus Pivô was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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The terraces
The away end at Retrô goes home happy
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict