The Maringá Chronicle
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Maringá
Jefferson Paulino and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Cristovam signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristovam commits to Maringá for another 2 years.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Vitinho joins the Maringá first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vitinho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Tallison
“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 dugout8 Mar 2027
Rhuan 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 Rhuan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I want to play”: Tallison speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- Market The Edison Negueba talk will not go away
- Squad One-to-one work for Edison Negueba