The Atlético Mineiro Gazette
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Atlético Mineiro
A 1‑0 win over ABC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Alan Minda runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Iseppe, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Renan Lodi 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 Atlético Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Victor Hugo
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Mateo Cassierra sends Atlético Mineiro past Botafogo
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mateo Cassierra’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Atlético Mineiro.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexsander
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vitor Hugo 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Mateo Cassierra
A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Alexsander speaks
- Player ratings The referee tires of Alan Franco
- The terraces The press have found their man in Gabriel Delfim