Ramon

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Parana
4 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ramon

56 Edition

The Parana Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

9 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.

Match

Parana sink to position 9

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

Squad

Luis Salazar 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.

Squad

Liliu 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ramon

Marked 8.06 — 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Parana

Something was said to Juliano Chade and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Juninho 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.

Match

Honours even between Parana and Santa Cruz

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

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Leonardo Araujo on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Parana

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Parana are no longer polite ones.

Match

A bad afternoon for Parana against Sampaio Correa

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

Squad

Luquinhas 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ueslei 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Leonardo Araujo to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Bruno Cantanhede runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Parana ask about Thiago Beltrame

A loan enquiry to Grêmio: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Parana try to borrow Rodriguinho

Cruzeiro have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Vinícius Lira is in the works

Parana have made the call to Santos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

44 Edition

The Parana Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Igor Neves out for 63 days

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

Squad

Ramon pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vinícius Michelon

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Luquinhas 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

Igor João 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adauto Júnior

“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.

Match

Ibson Melo rescues a point for Parana

It needed Ibson Melo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Boa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Leonardo Araujo was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Parana dressing room was either.

In brief

42 Edition

The Parana Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Igor Neves out for 78 days

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

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Parana taken apart

1‑4 to Paysandu, 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.

Squad

Juliano Chade stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Parana 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Leonardo Araujo to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Sídnei is free to find somewhere else

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

In brief

41 Edition

The Parana Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Igor Neves damages knee ligaments — 86 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

8 saves: Juliano Chade was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Ceará take the points off Parana

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Luquinhas 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.

The dugout

Leonardo Araujo faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leonardo Araujo after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Igor João 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.

The dugout

Igor João 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.

Market

Liliu told to find a new club

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

Player ratings

Ramon beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

40 Edition

The Parana Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Igor Neves damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Vinícius Michelon was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

At last: Parana win one

9 matches without a win, and then this, against Sampaio Correa. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Bruno Cantanhede signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bruno Cantanhede and Parana agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Luquinhas 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.

Match

Ramon sends Parana past Sampaio Correa

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ramon’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parana.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jackson

“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.

Player ratings

Ramon was the difference for Parana

Marked 7.97. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor João 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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market Luis Salazar told to find a new club
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Mariano Barreda
39 Edition

The Parana Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Igor Neves out for 100 days

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

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

9 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.

Squad

8 saves: Juliano Chade was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Luquinhas 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

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

Match

Ramon rescues a point for Parana

It needed Ramon to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Mirassol, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Leonardo Araujo on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Mateus Santana

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sampaio Correa in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

Luquinhas left out for tactical reasons at Parana

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

38 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Igor Neves damages knee ligaments — 107 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

8 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.

Player ratings

Ibson Melo, 38, rolls back the years — 7.80

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Clayton Junior keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Ramon 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 ratings

Ueslei beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Player ratings

A costly moment from Vinícius Michelon

One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Parana, and it is a cruel one.

In brief

31 Edition

The Parana Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

Wesley Rodrigues 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 Parana

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

Market

Vinícius Michelon is free to find somewhere else

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

Squad

Clayton Junior is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Clayton Junior 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.

Squad

Is this Clayton Junior’s last season?

“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Clayton Junior is 38, with 87 appearances behind him, and Parana will have to plan for whichever answer comes.

The dugout

The manager makes Adauto Júnior a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Parana. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

27 Edition

The Parana Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mariano Barreda out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Mariano Barreda, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Adauto Júnior in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Training ground row involving Adauto Júnior

Tempers went at Parana this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.

Market

The shop window has Clayton Junior in it

Parana have let the market know Clayton Junior can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

A door opens for Clayton Junior

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

22 Edition

The Parana Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Mateus Santana 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 Parana, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Martín Quezada

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with Santa Cruz, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Guilherme Guedes

Parana asked and Fortaleza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Wesley Rodrigues 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

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

Transfer targets

Parana try to borrow Gabriel Souza

Santa Cruz have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Parana and Anderson Sobral 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.

The dugout

The manager makes Clayton Junior a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Parana. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

19 Edition

The Parana Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Parana

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Parana is running low.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dheimison

“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.

Squad

A step back for Dheimison at Parana

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Transfer targets

Parana ask about Dell

A loan enquiry to Bahia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Parana have started building around Ramon

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Boardroom

$4.3M taken back off the Parana table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Boardroom

Open for business: Parana enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

In brief

16 Edition

The Parana Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Wesley Rodrigues 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.

Squad

Eltinho 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.

The dugout

Adauto Júnior 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

João Ferreira: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Ferreira 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Ueslei 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

The formation has left Wesley Rodrigues behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Parana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Lucas Bueno 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 Lucas Bueno trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Clayton Junior 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 Clayton Junior has written the date down.

In brief

  • Squad A season on the outside for Gustavo Silva
  • Market Parana shop where it costs nothing
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Ramon
8 Edition

The Parana Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Clayton Junior

“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.

The dugout

A door opens for Lucas Bueno

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

5 Edition

The Parana Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Ronny out for 23 days

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Juliano Chade

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

6 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.

Squad

Liliu 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

America Mineiro take the points off Parana

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dheimison

“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.

Squad

16 new faces, and Parana are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Eduardo Souza to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Dheimison dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

4 Edition

The Parana Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Ronny out for 30 days

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

Match

Parana throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Sampaio Correa the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Parana will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ramon takes the afternoon — 8.79

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ramon provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eltinho 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Juliano Chade

“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.

Match

Parana share the spoils with Sampaio Correa

A 2‑2 draw with Sampaio Correa leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Eduardo Souza on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Eduardo Souza after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Dheimison
  • Looking ahead Parana take on the side everybody is chasing
  • Squad Ramon scores his first for Parana