Júnior

Right Back - Retired
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Júnior

15 Edition

The Parana Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Lucas Fernandes 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.

Market

One of our own: Alex Porto joins the Parana first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alex Porto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Parana promote Paulo Martins from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulo Martins has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Renan Oliveira 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

No hiding place for Lucas Bueno

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

Squad

Vinícius Paulista signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vinícius Paulista commits to Parana for another 3 years.

In brief

  • Squad Competition arrives for Júnior
  • Market Parana shop where it costs nothing
  • Market Wendell placed on the list
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Luis Salazar
Back issues
11 Edition

The Parana Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sérgio Amaral

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

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Lucas Fernandes 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

A move Hugo Castillo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Hugo Castillo is living that version at Parana, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Júnior stays put

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

Boardroom

Parana agree a free transfer for Guilherme Moura

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Market

Parana promote Vitor Nardo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vitor Nardo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Bebeto joins the Parana first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bebeto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Parana buy the years ahead of Joel Abraham

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lucas Bueno

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

In brief

  • Market Experience through the door at Parana
  • The dugout Clayton Junior asks for a word with the manager