The Criciuma Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lira damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
59 days out for Alisson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Criciuma will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Kauã agrees terms with Kapaz
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Criciuma people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Octávio at Criciuma
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Octávio is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Criciuma rebuffed over Francisco Borda
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Central Norte have kept their man, and Criciuma go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Diego Soares joins the Criciuma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Soares is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
Vinão steps up from the Criciuma academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vinão has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jan 2027
Danilo Cavalcante steps up from the Criciuma academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Cavalcante has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The decline has begun for Federico Presedo
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Criciuma is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolas gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Jhonata Robert has been promised minutes
- The dugout Erick Garcia knocks on the manager’s door