Bicho

Left Back - Cianorte U18
21 Dec 2027
Tuesday
Process

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13 Edition

The Cianorte Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Mateus Correia out for 59 days

59 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cianorte lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

A hiding for Cianorte

Beaten 0‑3 by Itabirito, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

David Lucas keeps Cianorte in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Cianorte

David Lucas 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

Words at Cianorte training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexsandro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Cianorte

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Roberto Costa: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Luan is still paying for one afternoon at Cianorte

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

Luan will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

In brief