Marquinhos

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Santa Cruz
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Marked for Marquinhos

563 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

11 May 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings11 May 2037

Age has not caught Luis Ramos yet — 8.19

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.19 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad11 May 2037

Luis Sánchez 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.

Match9 May 2037

A bad afternoon for Santa Cruz against Juventude

1‑2 to Juventude, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad11 May 2037

Francisco Galván stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Galván and Santa Cruz agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings11 May 2037

Nobody could get near Ronald Mayo

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad11 May 2037

Matías Gómez 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

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526 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

25 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match23 Aug 2036

Santa Cruz win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Vitória will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad25 Aug 2036

A one-man rearguard from Rokenedy

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings25 Aug 2036

Age has not caught Cleiton yet — 9.00

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad25 Aug 2036

Luis Ramos: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Santa Cruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad25 Aug 2036

Luis Sánchez 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.

Match23 Aug 2036

Santa Cruz see off Vitória

Three points for Santa Cruz, 2‑1 the final word against Vitória in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad25 Aug 2036

Gabriel Amaral 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.

Player ratings25 Aug 2036

The one thing Pablo Suárez could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings25 Aug 2036

Nobody could get near Joaquín Borja Velázquez

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

524 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

11 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market11 Aug 2036

Matías Gómez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Santa Cruz can pretend not to have heard.

Match9 Aug 2036

6 matches without a win for Santa Cruz

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Santa Cruz are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings11 Aug 2036

Age has not caught Luis Sánchez yet — 8.51

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.51 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad11 Aug 2036

Luis Sánchez 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.

Match9 Aug 2036

A bad afternoon for Santa Cruz against Juventude

1‑2 to Juventude, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad11 Aug 2036

No hiding place for Rokenedy

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

Player ratings11 Aug 2036

Marquinhos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad11 Aug 2036

Román Fernández stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Román Fernández and Santa Cruz agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad11 Aug 2036

Matías Gómez 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

513 Edition

The Santa Cruz Chronicle

26 May 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 May 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zé Welinton

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Santa Cruz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad26 May 2036

Benicio Romero decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match21 May 2036

Santa Cruz through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Bragantino, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings26 May 2036

Nothing got past Wanderson

34 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings26 May 2036

A defender's afternoon for Fabinho

Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings26 May 2036

Age has not caught Marquinhos yet — 8.98

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings26 May 2036

Nobody could get near José Munive

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 May 2036

Luis Sánchez 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.

Squad26 May 2036

Ferreirinha 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