Luquinhas

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Atletico Goianiense
12 Apr 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Luquinhas

121 Edition

The Atletico Goianiense Herald

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vladimir

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

Squad

Adriano Mina 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 Atletico Goianiense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jean Dias 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

  • Squad The manager makes an example of Luquinhas
Back issues
77 Edition

The Atletico Goianiense Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Atletico Goianiense

Adriano Mina 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

Marrony 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

The Adriano Mina talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Atletico Goianiense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

56 Edition

The Atletico Goianiense Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Atletico Goianiense

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

Gerardo Dos Santos, 33, rolls back the years — 8.76

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.76 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Paulo Vitor keeps Atletico Goianiense 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.

Squad

Williams Alarcón 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

Atletico Goianiense come up short against Botafogo

Botafogo left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jader

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Atletico Goianiense

Agustín Echaide 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

Kevin Ramírez 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.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Gustavo Coutinho

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief