Maringá

Goalkeeper - Valletta
17 Oct 2026
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Marked for Maringá

10 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Steve Borg breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Valletta

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Valletta

Maringá 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A masterclass from Shaft Brewer

Marked 8.31 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Valletta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Kats 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One moment undoes Andrei Ciolacu

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

Match3 Oct 2026

Honours even between Valletta and Birkirkara

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Rowen Muscat 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A day to forget for Thomas Melillo

Marked 5.74, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Steve Borg breaks a bone — 90 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Maringá 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 Valletta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Stijn Meijer

“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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Steve Borg out for 98 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valletta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Valletta

Maringá 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Valletta against Zabbar St. Patrick

1‑2 to Zabbar St. Patrick, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Maringá

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

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Valletta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Kats 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Thaylor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

3 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Steve Borg out for 133 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valletta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market17 Aug 2026

Valletta say no — this time

The offer from Birkirkara for Julani Archibald was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Maringá 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 Valletta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Valletta and Artur Kats

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market17 Aug 2026

Valletta bring in an old head

Paul Moldovan is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Victor Kiselev still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Valletta would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

2 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Valletta say no — this time

The offer from Naxxar Lions for Yannick Yankam was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Maringá 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 Valletta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Artur Kats 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Valletta and Yuri Messias

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Valletta, another week without a signature from Yuri Messias.

Market10 Aug 2026

No place for Thomas Melillo in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Thomas Melillo has his answer from Valletta; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Yannick Yankam 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 Yannick Yankam trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

1 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Julani Archibald puts it in writing

“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 Valletta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Aug 2026

9 seasons of Rowen Muscat

268 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Valletta know what they have.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Maringá stays put

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Valletta

Maringá 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Valletta and Maringá

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market3 Aug 2026

Rowen Muscat told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Rowen Muscat has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Valletta.

In brief