Cafú

Defensive Midfielder - Kasimpasa
14 Jan 2029
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 5 Transfers Relations Events 81 Awards Matches History

Marked for Cafú

99 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jun 2028

Ali Yavuz Kol says Kasimpasa went back on their word

“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.

Market19 Jun 2028

Kasimpasa may not be able to give Marcos Camarda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcos Camarda wants continental football; whether Kasimpasa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market19 Jun 2028

Taylan Aydın moves on

Ankaragucu pay $800.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Kasimpasa

Pape Habib Guèye 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.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Nicholas Opoku 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.

Squad19 Jun 2028

No hiding place for Cafú

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

In brief

Back issues
86 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match18 Mar 2028

16 matches without a win for Kasimpasa

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Kasimpasa are no longer polite ones.

The terraces20 Mar 2028

Anger at Kasimpasa spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom20 Mar 2028

Kasimpasa give the job to Mert Turuc

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Match18 Mar 2028

Kasimpasa leaking at the back

12 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match18 Mar 2028

Kasimpasa taken apart

2‑5 to Besiktas, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Both of them Kubilay Kanatsızkuş's — 8.37

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Cafú keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kasimpasa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Kasimpasa

Nicholas Opoku 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.

Match18 Mar 2028

Kubilay Kanatsızkuş among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Kubilay Kanatsızkuş on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Kasimpasa and Besiktas.

In brief

65 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Oct 2027

Andreas Gianniotis keeps Kasimpasa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Ali Muldur breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match25 Oct 2027

Kasimpasa sink to position 17

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Cafú keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kasimpasa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market25 Oct 2027

Marcos Camarda wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Marcos Camarda wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Kasimpasa know it.

In brief

56 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Aug 2027

Ali Muldur breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market23 Aug 2027

Bruno Bianchi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kasimpasa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Cafú keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kasimpasa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market23 Aug 2027

Kasimpasa may not be able to give Marcos Camarda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcos Camarda wants continental football; whether Kasimpasa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Home is on Marcos Camarda's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Kasimpasa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Nicholas Opoku 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

53 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Serdar Celik has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Kasimpasa can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The Kasimpasa board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Kasimpasa

Nicholas Opoku 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mortadha Ben Ouannes 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Cafú stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cafú and Kasimpasa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market2 Aug 2027

Bruno Bianchi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kasimpasa has been clear about where Bruno Bianchi stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Andreas Gianniotis 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.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Kasimpasa pull $584.5K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market2 Aug 2027

Marcos Camarda linked with a move away

The name of Marcos Camarda keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kasimpasa say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief