The Criciuma Gazette
Match8 Aug 2026
Criciuma tear Sampaio Correa apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sampaio Correa, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Nicolas yet — 8.22
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.22 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Aug 2026
Octávio has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Criciuma they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Octávio has agreed to leave Criciuma 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.
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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Criciuma supporters have found a favourite in Sandry
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sandry has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market10 Aug 2026
Criciuma promote Roberto Borges from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roberto Borges 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Criciuma promote Gabigol from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabigol 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marcelo Lopes joins the Criciuma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcelo Lopes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Sandry
- Squad Criciuma pick somebody else ahead of Waguininho
- Squad Yuri Tanque is off the mark for Criciuma