Ignacio Campo

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Marked for Ignacio Campo

525 Edition

The Criciúma Gazette

18 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

137 days out for Ezequiel Rossi after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Criciúma will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Maceió runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Only the photograph left for Paulo Pereira

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Paulo Pereira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Criciúma the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Criciúma

Maceió 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Criciúma

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

The dugout

A promise honoured for Adriano Rodrigues

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Criciúma told Adriano Rodrigues something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Criciúma

5 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.

Match

Criciúma share the spoils with São Bernardo

A 1‑1 draw with São Bernardo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Yalle 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.

In brief

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524 Edition

The Criciúma Gazette

11 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Santiago Martín Pereyra out for 82 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Criciúma will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ignacio Campo arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ignacio Campo has, at Criciúma, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

The dugout

Kaylan: 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.” Criciúma have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Aldo Maiz is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Criciúma is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Aldo Maiz has agreed to leave Criciúma for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Criciúma

Maceió 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Criciúma

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

Match

Yago Goulart the difference as Criciúma beat Juazeirense

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yago Goulart. 2‑0 against Juazeirense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Adriano Rodrigues

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

In brief

467 Edition

The Athletico Paranaense Chronicle

9 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Dantas asks to leave Athletico Paranaense

“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.

Market

Caio Cruz has said yes to América de Natal

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Athletico Paranaense have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings

Lukas Zuccarello scores twice — 8.32

Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Athletico Paranaense say no — this time

The offer from Uberlândia for Matheus Cecchini Muller was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ignacio Campo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ignacio Campo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Athletico Paranaense the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Athletico Paranaense make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Athletico Paranaense have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Athletico Paranaense

Kaique Kenji and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

The run at home goes on for Athletico Paranaense

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Transfer targets

Athletico Paranaense bid $60.0K for Federico Rivas

The offer went to Cuiabá this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

In brief

457 Edition

The Athletico Paranaense Chronicle

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

The mood at Athletico Paranaense has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Lukas Zuccarello has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Athletico Paranaense they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Kaique Kenji takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Matteo Mantini 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 Athletico Paranaense can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Ignacio Campo has agreed to leave Athletico Paranaense for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Athletico Paranaense count the cost of losing Aranha

58 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Dantas raises the bar for Athletico Paranaense

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Athletico Paranaense heard it as anything else.

Squad

Bahia 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.

Match

Athletico Paranaense find a way past Avaí

Avaí made Athletico Paranaense work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief