The Maringá Chronicle
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Thiago Gigena wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Maringá know it.
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Augusto Galván 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
Ninety minutes of Guilherme Pira at his very best
Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Maringá.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Maringá lose Monarca
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of João Gabriel
“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 Guilherme Martins left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Maringá pick somebody else ahead of João Gabriel
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Player ratings Edison Negueba ran the game
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Augusto Galván
- Looking ahead Cristovam faces his old club