The Coritiba Gazette
Squad19 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Coritiba
Sebastián Gómez 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.
Market19 Feb 2029
Carlos Eduardo has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Coritiba can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Loan watch19 Feb 2029
Arthur Daniel counts the days
“I watch every Coritiba game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ituano runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Rodrigo Gelado has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Coritiba will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market19 Feb 2029
The Sebastián Gómez question follows Coritiba around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sebastián Gómez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Vini Paulista 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.
In brief
- The dugout Charles has been promised minutes
- Market Iury Castilho runs his contract down
- Squad Gustavo Coutinho has settled at Coritiba
- Squad Antônio Xavier is fit again