Daniel Assis

Left Midfielder - Figueirense U18
1 Aug 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Assis

13 Edition

The Figueirense Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Fabrício keeps Figueirense in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Guilherme Nunes 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 Figueirense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Daniel Orduz gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniel Orduz has just signed for Figueirense, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at Figueirense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Flávio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

CSA take the points off Figueirense

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Guilherme Nunes gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Douglas Alves faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Douglas Alves after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Wesley Costa gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Wesley Costa is on it.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Daniel Assis

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Figueirense Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage Dione — 8.05

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

A falling-out at Figueirense

Guilherme Nunes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Figueirense

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Flávio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Figueirense get the job done against Anápolis

A 2‑1 win over Anápolis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of João Marcos at his very best

Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Figueirense.

Squad

Ezequiel Bustamante 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. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout

Douglas Alves: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

Player ratings

Daniel Molina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Figueirense and Zé Oliveira are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief