Maycon

Defensive Midfielder - Atlético Mineiro
4 Nov 2026
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Marked for Maycon

11 Edition

The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Atlético Mineiro

Lyanco 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Patrick is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Dudu has had enough of the noise

The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Maycon has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Atlético Mineiro will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Dudu goes back to face Grêmio

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dudu’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Atlético Mineiro needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Fred has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Fred has written the date down.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Fred story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Fred signs something — a contract at Atlético Mineiro or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Júnior Santos keeps scoring at Botafogo

9 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Renan Lodi finally belongs at Atlético Mineiro

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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Gustavo Scarpa 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 Atlético Mineiro, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Sep 2026

Dudu wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Atlético Mineiro hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Atlético Mineiro to lose Lucas Souza for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Lucas Souza has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Bernard

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

Fred is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Fred has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Alexsander 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Kauã Pascini

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Kauã Pascini has come out of that comparison in the side, and Atlético Mineiro have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Lyanco moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Atlético Mineiro than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Maycon 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 Maycon is on it.

In brief

5 Edition

The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match25 Aug 2026

Atlético Mineiro march on in the cup

Cianorte are out and Atlético Mineiro go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market31 Aug 2026

Alan Minda says no to Pacos de Ferreira

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Alan Minda had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market31 Aug 2026

The Gagra deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mamady Cissé reports back to Atlético Mineiro with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market31 Aug 2026

Zé Phelipe has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlético Mineiro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Zé Phelipe has agreed to leave Atlético Mineiro for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Atlético Mineiro

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

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Patrick

At 22 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Atlético Mineiro keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match29 Aug 2026

Mateo Cassierra the difference as Atlético Mineiro beat Sport Recife

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mateo Cassierra. 1‑0 against Sport Recife, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

3 Edition

The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gustavo Scarpa

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlético Mineiro lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Tomás Cuello

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market17 Aug 2026

Atlético Mineiro say no — this time

The offer from Kwara United for Mamady Cissé 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Pedrinho has agreed to leave Atlético Mineiro for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Atlético Mineiro

Mateo Cassierra 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Atlético Mineiro come up short against Vitória

Vitória left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Atlético Mineiro dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexsander 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.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Cristiano Moura faces the questions

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

In brief