Wendel

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Maringá
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Marked for Wendel

81 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Feb 2028

Hiago 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 Maringá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A row about effort at Maringá

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

The dugout14 Feb 2028

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

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2027

Thiago Cattanese breaks a bone — 54 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match29 Jun 2027

The cup run ends for Maringá

1‑2 against Cuiabá, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market5 Jul 2027

Maringá turn down Maranhão for Julio Rodrigues

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

Squad5 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Maringá

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

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Door shut on Léo Chú

Maringá asked and Alverca said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings5 Jul 2027

Julio Rodrigues runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

The manager makes an example of Jhon Figueroa

“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.

Market5 Jul 2027

Maringá and Jhon Figueroa are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Carlos van der Ham 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

  • Transfer targets A loan move for Eduardo Melo is in the works
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Isaac is in the works
  • Boardroom Maringá sign 3 boys into the academy
18 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market30 Nov 2026

Julio Rodrigues asks to leave Maringá

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Daniel Bocanegra 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 Maringá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Edison Negueba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Julio Rodrigues 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.

Market30 Nov 2026

Maringá sign Wendel, one for the future

Wendel is 20, and Maringá have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match28 Nov 2026

Honours even between Maringá and Anápolis

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Caíke Duarte is a square peg at Maringá

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Caio Assis on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Caio Assis after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Hiago scores his first for Maringá

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

In brief

17 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match21 Nov 2026

A hiding for Maringá

Beaten 1‑4 by Caxias, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Alan Cardoso goes up and wins it — 7.99

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.99 for the rest of it.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Caíke Duarte arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Caíke Duarte has, at Maringá, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets23 Nov 2026

Wendel due for a Maringá medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Maringá

Robertinho 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at Maringá training over how hard people work

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

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Edison Negueba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom23 Nov 2026

Nobody left the Maringá 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 dugout23 Nov 2026

Caio Assis faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Caio Assis after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief