The Criciúma Gazette
Squad18 Aug 2036
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 ratings18 Aug 2036
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.
Market18 Aug 2036
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.
Squad18 Aug 2036
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.
Squad18 Aug 2036
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 dugout18 Aug 2036
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.
Squad18 Aug 2036
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.
Match16 Aug 2036
Criciúma share the spoils with São Bernardo
A 1‑1 draw with São Bernardo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout18 Aug 2036
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
- The dugout Ewandro Santos has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Nobody arrives at Criciúma until somebody leaves
- Market Criciúma and Ignacio Campo are talking past each other