The Criciuma Gazette
Match8 Aug 2026
Yuri Tanque leads the rout of Sampaio Correa
4‑0, and Yuri Tanque took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Criciuma tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Italo Mota could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.00
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.00, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Yuri Tanque takes the afternoon — 9.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yuri Tanque provided it, and the 9.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $3.4M sale of Jean Irmer
He is going to Rio Ave, the club has $3.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jean Irmer moves on
Rio Ave pay $3.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Criciuma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Lucas Soratto signs for Oeste while still at Criciuma
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lucas Soratto has agreed terms with Oeste for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near João Carlos
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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 Criciuma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Italo Mota
- Market Criciuma promote Thiago Soares from within
- Market Roberto Ribeiro steps up from the Criciuma academy