Dylan

Central Defender - Criciúma U20
14 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dylan

41 Edition

The Criciúma Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Guilherme Mendes out for 39 days

39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Criciúma lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

9 saves: Aírton was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Luciano Castán, 37, rolls back the years — 8.07

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

No end in sight to Criciúma's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Criciúma has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words at Criciúma training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Romarinho is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Thaciano 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.

Squad

Dylan out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Dylan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch

Kauã counts the days

“I watch every Criciúma game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Hapoel Beer Sheva runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Match

Luciano Castán rescues a point for Criciúma

It needed Luciano Castán to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Cruzeiro, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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37 Edition

The Criciúma Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yuri Tanque 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 Criciúma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Kauã wants to come home

“I did not go to Hapoel Beer Sheva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Criciúma and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

Criciúma count the cost of losing Dylan

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

The dugout

Marcinho has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Criciúma 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.

Market

Yuri Tanque linked with a move away

The name of Yuri Tanque keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Criciúma say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Gui Lobo asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief