Fabão

Central Defender - Parana
23 Sep 2029
Sunday
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Marked for Fabão

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The Parana Post

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Anger at Parana spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Player ratings

Gabriel Bontempo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

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

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

Squad

Agdon 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 ratings

Nothing got past Eduardo

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Fernando Macedo signs a new deal

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

Match

Parana draw a blank against America Mineiro

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. America Mineiro defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Lucas Bueno

A mark of 5.67 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

  • Player ratings An afternoon Agdon will want back
  • Market Fabão placed on the list
  • Market Tiago Alves leaves for nothing
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The Parana Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Maxwell out for 115 days

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

Match

Parana tear Boa apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Boa, and it could have been more.

Squad

A day Gabriel Bontempo will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Jorge keeps Parana in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jean Acosta

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jean Acosta will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Parana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Fabão is a Parana player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

Maxwell 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

One of those days for Gabriel Bontempo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.77, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Parana

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

In brief