Juninho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Cianorte U18
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Juninho

23 Edition

The Cianorte Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Paulo Teixeira is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Porto Velho waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cianorte is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

The step up is real for Caio Araújo

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market

Cianorte get their man

The chase for Caio Araújo ended with $120.0K changing hands and Santos out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cianorte

Willy Pretel 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.

The terraces

$120.0K for Caio Araújo, and Cianorte supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Caio Araújo from Santos for $120.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Danilo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danilo commits to Cianorte for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Talleres tell Cianorte: Hernán Taborda 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.

Squad

David Kauã 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Elias Manoel is in the works

Cianorte have made the call to Tijuana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Cianorte Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Anderson Carvalho takes the afternoon — 7.97

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anderson Carvalho provided it, and the 7.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Juninho at 16 — 7.70

The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Juninho did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Cianorte

Jean was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Rafael Furlan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rafael Furlan and Cianorte agree another 3 years.

Match

Cianorte find a way past Azuriz

Azuriz made Cianorte work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Bruno Souza

At 15 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Cianorte keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jean

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jean, and the manager let it.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Jackson for 19 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Cianorte will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief