Fredi

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Marked for Fredi

59 Edition

The Londrina Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Otávio, 33, rolls back the years — 7.99

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.99 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Billal Brahimi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words exchanged at Londrina

Paulinho Moccelin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Otávio the difference as Londrina beat Brusque

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Otávio. 1‑0 against Brusque, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Billal Brahimi

7 goals and a season average of 7.31 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yago Lincoln

“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.

Loan watch

11 goals on loan for Fabiano

21 appearances at Operário-MS and the goals keep coming. Londrina are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Words at Londrina training over how hard people work

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

The dugout

The form table has caught Kozlinski

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

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56 Edition

The Londrina Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Chastening afternoon for Londrina

A 1‑4 beating by Inter de Limeira was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Iago Teles scores twice — 8.41

Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Londrina refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 44 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

A falling-out at Londrina

Paulinho Moccelin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Londrina get the job done against Água Santa

A 3‑1 win over Água Santa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Lucas Marques — 6.81

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.81, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lucas Marques

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Londrina dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Naves is still paying for one afternoon at Londrina

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

53 Edition

The Londrina Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gabriel Lacerda hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Londrina can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Paulinho Moccelin yet — 7.85

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Kevyn has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Londrina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Iago Teles beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Paulinho Moccelin 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 Londrina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Londrina walk away from Rodrigo Xavier

$76.0K was the most the club would pay and Horizonte were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match

Londrina get the job done against Santa Cruz

A 3‑1 win over Santa Cruz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

One of those days for Billal Brahimi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Fredi 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

47 Edition

The Londrina Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Gilberto scores twice — 8.41

Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Kaique Rodrigues hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Londrina can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Londrina turn down FCI Levadia for Kaique Rodrigues

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Londrina get their man

The chase for Fredi ended with $500.0K changing hands and Bahia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Words exchanged at Londrina

Paulinho Moccelin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Kevyn attracts admirers

The name of Kevyn has come up in conversations Londrina were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Londrina against CSA

2‑3 to CSA, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Naves 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

The game went through Maurício — 7.01

Marked 7.01 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief