The Criciúma Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Waguininho scores twice — 8.36
Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Felipe Jonatan would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Felipe Jonatan is living that version at Criciúma, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Rómulo Otero, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Pedro 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Pedro
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pedro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Criciúma the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Match4 Aug 2026
Waguininho sends Criciúma past Athletic Club
It finished 3‑1, and it was Waguininho’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Criciúma.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Aírton
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Leozao joins the Criciúma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leozao is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Rodrigo Machado steps up from the Criciúma academy
- Market One of our own: Alex Assis joins the Criciúma first team
- Match A bad afternoon for Criciúma against Novorizontino