The Parana Post
Squad18 Jan 2027
28 days out for Kauê after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Parana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Parana
Nailson 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Parana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ueslei 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Parana count the cost of losing Mateus Gomes
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
João Ferreira 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 João Ferreira trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
João Cabral has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and João Cabral has written the date down.