Danilo Araujo

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Danilo Araujo

71 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Luca Porretta damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Trem put Paulo Rangel on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Cristiano Guimarães hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trem can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Magdiel 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 Trem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Ruy is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Trem has been clear about where Ruy stands, which is more than many ever get.

Transfer targets

Trem try to borrow Júnior Nardo

Central have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Ramiro Castiñeira

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ramiro Castiñeira has come out of that comparison in the side, and Trem have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

Renato without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Renato was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

The dugout

Fernando Macedo 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

Back issues
48 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Trem

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Danilo 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 Trem, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Bruno Goiaba out for 54 days

The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Bruno Goiaba, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

Trem leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Tempers go at Trem

Magdiel 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Trem and Imperatriz in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

A bad afternoon for Trem against Imperatriz

2‑4 to Imperatriz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

Trem counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Trem now.

Transfer targets

Trem rebuffed over Lima

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atlético Goianiense have kept their man, and Trem go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

41 Edition

The Trem Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Trem

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Trem

Magdiel 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.

The terraces

Trem supporters have found a favourite in Renilson

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Renilson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Danilo Araujo steps up from the Trem academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Araujo 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.

Market

One of our own: Fernando Batista joins the Trem first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Batista is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Ykaro 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.

Player ratings

Magdiel was immovable

16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Renilson takes the honours

Marked 7.33 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Trem had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Paulo Rangel chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief