Lucas Cardozo

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23 Jun 2030
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Marked for Lucas Cardozo

196 Edition

The Santa Cruz de Natal Sentinel

29 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad29 Apr 2030

A falling-out at Santa Cruz de Natal

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

Boardroom29 Apr 2030

Still nobody in the Santa Cruz de Natal dugout

14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad29 Apr 2030

Edson Fernando 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.

Match27 Apr 2030

Santa Cruz de Natal come up short against Sampaio Corrêa

Sampaio Corrêa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom29 Apr 2030

No signings allowed at Santa Cruz de Natal

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout29 Apr 2030

Ryan Daniel 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.

Boardroom29 Apr 2030

The Santa Cruz de Natal debt reaches $7.8M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad29 Apr 2030

No place for Renato Teixeira in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Santa Cruz de Natal are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad29 Apr 2030

Home is on Mario Vieru's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Santa Cruz de Natal are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

Back issues
181 Edition

The Santa Cruz de Natal Sentinel

14 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jan 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafael Compri

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

Market14 Jan 2030

Ryan Daniel asks to leave Santa Cruz de Natal

“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.

Transfer targets14 Jan 2030

Sport Recife tell Santa Cruz de Natal: Marcelo Gomez is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Words at Santa Cruz de Natal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edson Fernando 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.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Ronald González 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 de Natal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout14 Jan 2030

The manager makes an example of Lucas Cardozo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom14 Jan 2030

96% of the income goes out in wages at Santa Cruz de Natal

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Too much change too quickly at Santa Cruz de Natal

8 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.

Market14 Jan 2030

Danilo Borges already looking beyond Santa Cruz de Natal

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

In brief

178 Edition

The Santa Cruz de Natal Sentinel

24 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Dec 2029

The knee: Rafael Compri out for 101 days

101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Santa Cruz de Natal lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market24 Dec 2029

Eduardo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Santa Cruz de Natal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Dec 2029

Words exchanged at Santa Cruz de Natal

Warlen 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.

Transfer targets24 Dec 2029

An offer of $1.0K for Fernando Guimarães

Santa Cruz de Natal have gone to Goianésia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets24 Dec 2029

Cianorte tell Santa Cruz de Natal: Euller is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad24 Dec 2029

Words at Santa Cruz de Natal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edson Fernando 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.

Transfer targets24 Dec 2029

Santa Cruz de Natal try to borrow Renato Porto

Goianésia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market24 Dec 2029

The ambition of Lucas Cardozo outgrows Santa Cruz de Natal early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

The dugout24 Dec 2029

Ryan Daniel 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