The Maringá Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Diego Sequeira out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maringá will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Maringá's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Maringá has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Maringá
Julio Rodrigues 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A move Lucas Ruiz Díaz 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. Lucas Ruiz Díaz is living that version at Maringá, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Maringá
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edison Negueba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match28 Nov 2026
Guilherme Pira’s goal not enough for Maringá
Guilherme Pira scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Anápolis, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Rhuan
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Mateus Lima left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Robertinho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Maringá buy the years ahead of Ronald Alarcón
- The dugout Cristovam is still paying for one afternoon at Maringá
- The dugout Julio Rodrigues has become a man the manager trusts