The Coritiba Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Federico Sellecchia would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Federico Sellecchia is living that version at Coritiba, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Arthur Daniel
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jacy Maranhão 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Gabriel Bontempo
Coritiba asked and Santos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Deadline beats Coritiba to Kauã
The clock did what Criciúma would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Coritiba
Pedro Rangel 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clock runs on Tiago Cóser's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Walisson 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Breno Lopes question follows Coritiba around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Breno Lopes’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Coritiba and Pedro Rangel are talking past each other
- The dugout Brandão has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Federico Sellecchia joins Coritiba to strengthen the squad