Márcio Júnior

Central Midfielder - Paysandu
27 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Márcio Júnior

20 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Miguel Angelo signs for Oeste while still at Paysandu

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Miguel Angelo has agreed terms with Oeste for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Paysandu get their man

The chase for Yago Santos ended with $160.0K changing hands and America Mineiro out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Paysandu get their man

The chase for Pedro ended with $77.0K changing hands and Criciuma out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Business is business: Miguel Angelo goes

Parana paid $77.0K and Paysandu took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Mendes stays put

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

Market

Paysandu buy the years ahead of Beto

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.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Vitória come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Paysandu did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Arthur Monteiro: 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.” Paysandu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

André stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” André and Paysandu agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

18 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Márcio Júnior 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 Paysandu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work

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

Lucca Carvalho 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 Lucca Carvalho trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

  • Squad The manager comes out for Thayllon
16 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

JP Galvão 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

Márcio Júnior 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

No hiding place for Castro

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

In brief

13 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Danilo Peu: 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.” Paysandu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márcio Júnior 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.

Market

The clock does André’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Paysandu could ask drops and the wages André can ask rise.

In brief

12 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Lucca Carvalho: 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.” Paysandu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Márcio Júnior 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 Paysandu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work

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

11 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

Márcio Júnior 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

Rafael Barros 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 Rafael Barros trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Ítalo Pica-Pau has settled at Paysandu

The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.

In brief

10 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

JP Galvão 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

Márcio Júnior 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

Edílson Júnior named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Edílson Júnior is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

7 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lucas Cardoso

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ítalo Pica-Pau

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

Match

Oeste take the points off Paysandu

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Paysandu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márcio Júnior 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

Yeferson Quintana 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.

Squad

JP Galvão has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Paysandu lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

6 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ítalo Pica-Pau

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Matheus Vargas takes the afternoon — 7.82

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matheus Vargas provided it, and the 7.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Márcio Júnior

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Márcio Júnior 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.

Match

Matheus Vargas sends Paysandu past Nautico

It finished 2‑1, and it was Matheus Vargas’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Paysandu.

Squad

Facundo Bonifazi 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

5 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ítalo Pica-Pau

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

Match

4 matches without a win for Paysandu

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Paysandu are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thayllon

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

Márcio Júnior 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

Honours even between Paysandu and Criciuma

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Rafael Barros

“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

  • Squad Luciano dropped after a run of poor form
  • Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Lucas Cardoso
  • Market André runs his contract down
4 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ítalo Pica-Pau

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thayllon

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Márcio Júnior 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gabriel Mesquita

There were 8 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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Yeferson Quintana delivers — 7.56

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Yeferson Quintana scored, was marked 7.56, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

JP Galvão 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 Paysandu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Paysandu see off Boa

Three points for Paysandu, 3‑1 the final word against Boa in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to João Paulo

At 23 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kleiton Pego at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Paysandu.

Player ratings

Márcio Júnior runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The clock runs on Gabriel Mesquita's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

Ítalo Pica-Pau signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ítalo Pica-Pau commits to Paysandu for another 3 years.

In brief

1 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matheus Vargas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matheus Vargas commits to Paysandu for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Paysandu

JP Galvão 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

Márcio Júnior 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.

Market

Paysandu and Jean Drosny 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.

Market

Nobody at Paysandu has picked up the phone to Matheus Vargas

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Market

Experience through the door at Paysandu

Rafael Barros arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

  • Squad André knocks on the manager's door
  • Market Still no signature from André