The Athletico Paranaense Chronicle
Squad17 Apr 2028
The knee: Gastón Benavídez out for 104 days
104 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Athletico Paranaense lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Juan Camilo Portilla says Athletico Paranaense 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 ratings17 Apr 2028
Lorran, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86
A mark of 7.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Jean 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 Athletico Paranaense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Athletico Paranaense
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Alejandro García 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.
Market17 Apr 2028
Athletico Paranaense promote Júnior Pacheco from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Júnior Pacheco has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Monstro joins the Athletico Paranaense first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Monstro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Roberto Rodrigues joins the Athletico Paranaense first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roberto Rodrigues is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Gabriel Machado joins the Athletico Paranaense first team
- Match Mateus Guimarães answers Bahia immediately
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matheus Felipe