Caíque

Striker - Floresta
28 Dec 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Caíque

14 Edition

The Floresta Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

10 saves: Tiepo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Floresta let it slip despite Bismark

Bismark had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Tombense were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Both of them Bismark's — 8.44

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A falling-out at Floresta

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

Boardroom

Gabriel Andrade will join Floresta for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gabriel Andrade has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Floresta have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Caíque

At 18 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.

Match

Bismark the difference as Floresta beat Confiança

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bismark. 1‑0 against Confiança, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Rafinha did the work nobody counts — 6.85

11 combined actions and 6.85. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

A step back for Cedric at Floresta

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Floresta Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Caíque is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Time is catching up with Paulinho

Everybody at Floresta saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Market

One of our own: Victor Farias joins the Floresta first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Farias is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Floresta promote Gabriel Moreira from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Moreira 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.

Squad

Aderlan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Aderlan and Floresta agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Cedric gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cedric is on it.

In brief

8 Edition

The Floresta Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Age has not caught Bismark yet — 8.07

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words exchanged at Floresta

Cedric 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.

Boardroom

Wictor Gabriel will join Floresta for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Wictor Gabriel has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Floresta have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Floresta had all but put away. CSA will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

Rafael Conceição is a square peg at Floresta

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

A long bet from Floresta on Caio Suassuna

He is 19, and nobody at Floresta signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Floresta sign Caíque, one for the future

Caíque is 18, and Floresta have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Floresta sign Kauã Costa, one for the future

Kauã Costa is 20, and Floresta have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match

Honours even between Floresta and CSA

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief