Ezequiel

Goalkeeper - Paysandu
2 Mar 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ezequiel

30 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Felipe Augusto out for 135 days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Paysandu

Ítalo Pica-Pau and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Facundo Bonifazi 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.

The dugout

Ezequiel 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 dugout

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

The dugout

When it matters, Caio Mello plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Paysandu taken apart

0‑3 to Goiás, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Ítalo Pica-Pau 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

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.

The dugout

Felipe Augusto 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Paysandu

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Arthur Freitas answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Ítalo Pica-Pau runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

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

The dugout

When it matters, Gabriel Mesquita plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

6 Edition

The Paysandu Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Paysandu

Gustavo Silva 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Paysandu

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ítalo Pica-Pau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pablo

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

Squad

A step back for Kleiton Pego at Paysandu

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

Talks stall between Paysandu and Darlan Mendes

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Felipe Augusto is not saying it is over

“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 31 with 1 appearances behind him, and Paysandu have to plan for both answers.

Market

The Gustavo Silva question follows Paysandu around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gustavo Silva’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

When it matters, Delis Vargas plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Yeferson Quintana asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief