André Santos

Left Back - Maringá U18
30 May 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for André Santos

82 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Luís Araujo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Maringá, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Edison Negueba 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 Maringá can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Maringá

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

Squad

Bruno Pacheco 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.

Squad

André Santos out for 23 days

The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for André Santos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Hernanny out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Hernanny, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

Back issues
72 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Martín Espinoza Pino puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Maringá, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Real improvement from Miguel Antonio at Maringá

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miguel Antonio is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Maringá

Bruno Pacheco was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

The decline has begun for Bruno Pacheco

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Maringá is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Market

The Julio Rodrigues conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Itabaiana will make the call about Julio Rodrigues this week. Maringá have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Transfer targets

Club America tell Maringá: Rodrigo Dourado is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Eduardo Teixeira 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.

Squad

André Santos out for 38 days

The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for André Santos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Felipe Saraiva 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

38 Edition

The Maringá Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Maringá tear ABC apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against ABC, and it could have been more.

Squad

Edison Negueba takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

The dugout

Cristovam says Maringá went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Bruno Pacheco, 35, rolls back the years — 7.93

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

A falling-out at Maringá

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

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Maringá

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.

Player ratings

Edison Negueba was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.50. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

A row about effort at Maringá

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

Market

Felipe Oliveira steps up from the Maringá academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felipe Oliveira 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.

In brief