Marked for Danilo Lima
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Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Fábio Lima beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Cascavel
Rafael Ibiapino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Apr 2027
After 6 games, Cascavel finally taste it again
The first defeat in 6 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Guarany de Bagé; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match24 Apr 2027
0‑2 to Guarany de Bagé, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Aldair Arnedo
“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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Rafael Souza to a room that had heard them before.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A Cascavel teenager takes the young player award
Roger Gabriel is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Market26 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rafael Ibiapino signs something — a contract at Cascavel or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Triumph
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Nobody could get near Fábio Lima
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A debut Roger Gabriel will not forget — 7.59
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.59 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Match17 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Cascavel right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Match17 Apr 2027
Cascavel are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Cascavel
Gustavo Daniel 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 terraces19 Apr 2027
At 20 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1‑0 win over Uberlândia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cascavel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cascavel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Minaglia, and the manager let it.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clock runs on Borges's contract
10 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Cascavel would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Matheusinho story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matheusinho signs something — a contract at Cascavel or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Danilo Lima knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Danilo Lima trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Squad22 Feb 2027
35 days out for Jefferson Renan after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cascavel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” José Acosta and Cascavel agree another 1 years.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Cascavel
Gustavo Daniel 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cascavel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrique Bezerra 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcos Xavier is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Angel Enciso is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 39 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Angel Enciso commits to Cascavel for another 1 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kayan needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cascavel know which stage they are at.