The Atlético Mineiro Gazette
Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Bernard out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlético Mineiro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Apr 2027
Atlético Mineiro do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Atlético Mineiro came through the finding-out well against Santos.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Gustavo Scarpa yet — 8.07
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Gustavo Scarpa 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 Atlético Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Atlético Mineiro
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market19 Apr 2027
Tiago Fernandes steps up from the Atlético Mineiro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tiago Fernandes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Apr 2027
One of our own: Éder Bezerra joins the Atlético Mineiro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Éder Bezerra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Apr 2027
Marcelo Guimarães steps up from the Atlético Mineiro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcelo Guimarães has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Apr 2027
One of our own: Juninho joins the Atlético Mineiro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juninho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Atlético Mineiro find a way past Mirassol
- Squad Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work
- Player ratings Reinier in the eights