Parana U20

31 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process
57 Edition

The Parana Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Juliano Chade keeps Parana in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Parana boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Match

Parana come up short against Fortaleza

Fortaleza left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Willian Cavalcante left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

No hiding place for Leandro Carvalho

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leandro Carvalho, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Eduardo Rothermel 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
56 Edition

The Parana Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

10 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

Juliano Chade keeps Parana in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Parana — 7.88

1 for Lucas André, marked 7.88, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

The dugout

Lucas Bueno keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Gabriel Tigrão 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Eduardo Rothermel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduardo Rothermel, and the manager let it.

Match

Parana refuse to lose to Sampaio Correa

A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Match

Igor Neves rescues a point for Parana

It needed Igor Neves to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Sampaio Correa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

55 Edition

The Parana Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Gabriel Tigrão was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Bruno Ferreira deal

Parana ran out of time with Ceará. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Match

A bad afternoon for Parana against Boa

0‑1 to Boa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Parana

Sampaio Correa next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

Willian Cavalcante faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Willian Cavalcante after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about João Ferreira

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told João Ferreira.

In brief

54 Edition

The Parana Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Ueslei damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Match

Parana sink to position 9

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Luis Salazar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Salazar commits to Parana for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Lara 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.

Transfer targets

Igor Cariús stays at Mirassol as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Parana will try again when the window opens; Mirassol may not be selling by then.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Parana

Boa next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

The manager makes João Ferreira a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Parana. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

53 Edition

The Parana Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ueslei damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Match

8 matches without a win for Parana

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Parana are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parana

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Luis Salazar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Salazar commits to Parana for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Jorge deal

Parana ran out of time with Ceará. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 87 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Parana had all but put away. Paysandu will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Ramon

7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Parana had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

52 Edition

The Parana Post

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

13 saves: Juliano Chade was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

21 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Ueslei damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 0 in, 0 out at Parana

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Bruno Ferreira due for a Parana medical

Everything agreed with Ceará, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Zé Gabriel deal

Parana ran out of time with São Paulo. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Match

Parana come up short against Ceará

Ceará left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

51 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ueslei

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

10 saves: Juliano Chade was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

$820.0K settles it between the clubs for Jorge

Ceará have accepted the money. What Parana do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets

Parana bid $570.0K for Igor Cariús

The offer went to Mirassol this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Match

Igor Neves’s goal not enough for Parana

Igor Neves scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to ABC, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Robinho Junior

Parana asked and Santos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

50 Edition

The Parana Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 36 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ueslei damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Player ratings

Eduardo Rothermel was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Parana

Position 9 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Zé Gabriel

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with São Paulo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Young

Parana asked and Sport Recife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at Parana
  • Match Santa Cruz take the points off Parana
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
49 Edition

The Parana Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

43 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Market

Vinícius Michelon 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 Parana can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Parana agree $490.0K for Igor Cariús

The clubs have shaken hands with Mirassol; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Match

4 matches without a win for Parana

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Parana are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

A bad afternoon for Parana against Oeste

1‑3 to Oeste, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Transfer targets

Parana rebuffed over Billal Brahimi

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

Match

Parana at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 8, 10 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Transfer targets Parana try to borrow Pedro Martins
  • Boardroom Parana sign 6 boys into the academy
48 Edition

The Parana Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

51 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Transfer targets

$1.1M settles it between the clubs for Zé Gabriel

São Paulo have accepted the money. What Parana do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Transfer targets

Parana rebuffed over Dudu

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

Match

3 matches without a goal for Parana

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

Grêmio take the points off Parana

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Ferreira 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.

The dugout

Willian Cavalcante: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

Parana try to borrow Japa

Cruzeiro 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.

In brief

47 Edition

The Parana Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 59 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Juliano Chade

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets

Jorge is a medical away from Parana

The deal with Ceará is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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

A row about effort at Parana

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

Match

São Paulo take the points off Parana

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Willian Cavalcante left the room before anybody could ask which.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Parana

Grêmio top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Vinícius Michelon

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Parana told Vinícius Michelon something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

46 Edition

The Parana Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Leandro Carvalho breaks a bone — 68 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

7 saves: Juliano Chade was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Young

Parana asked and Sport Recife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Willian José

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with Bahia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Match

Fortaleza take the points off Parana

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Agustín Lara knocks on the manager’s door
  • Looking ahead Lucas André faces his old club
45 Edition

The Parana Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

77 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Market

Lucas Gabriel asks to leave Parana

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Billal Brahimi

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with Santos, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Eduardo Rothermel

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Transfer targets

Parana rebuffed over Pedrão

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

Match

Igor Neves the difference as Parana beat Sampaio Correa

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Igor Neves. 1‑0 against Sampaio Correa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miguel Angelo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Angelo, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • Player ratings Igor Neves takes the honours
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Patrick is in the works
  • Squad Lucas Bueno is no longer first choice
44 Edition

The Parana Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

85 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Match

Parana end the wait against Boa

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match

Parana get the job done against Boa

A 1‑0 win over Boa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Gabriel Tigrão beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Ramon was the difference for Parana

Marked 7.91. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Willian Cavalcante, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Miguel Angelo dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

43 Edition

The Parana Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

17 saves: Alcides Benítez was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 17 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

93 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Match

The small margins put Parana out

Out, 0‑6 to Cruzeiro, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The terraces

Parana are taken apart by Cruzeiro — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-6. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

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.

Match

The goals have deserted Parana

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Parana can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

Leandro Carvalho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes 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 Parana and Cruzeiro in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

In brief

42 Edition

The Parana Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 100 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Parana

A 0‑3 beating by Paysandu was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

The dugout

Saulo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The goals have deserted Parana

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Parana can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Lucas André 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Parana dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

41 Edition

The Parana Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 108 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

A hiding for Parana

Beaten 0‑3 by Ceará, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Parana dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Willian Cavalcante to a room that had heard them before.

Market

No place for Flávio Boaventura in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Flávio Boaventura has his answer from Parana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Eduardo Rothermel 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

40 Edition

The Parana Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Gabriel Tigrão 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

Willian Cavalcante on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Willian Cavalcante after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Parana pick somebody else ahead of Lucas Bueno

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Looking ahead

Parana take on the side everybody is chasing

Ceará arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

Market

Luis Salazar told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Luis Salazar has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Parana.

Match

Point won or two lost for Parana?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against ABC? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

39 Edition

The Parana Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for João Ferreira

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

123 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Player ratings

Eduardo Rothermel was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Parana come up short against Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Lucas André 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.

The dugout

Willian Cavalcante answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mateus Santana

“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 dugout

Fernando Pileggi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

38 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho breaks a bone — 130 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 130 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Mateus Santana: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Parana end the wait against Oeste

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Match

Igor Neves sends Parana past Oeste

It finished 2‑0, and it was Igor Neves’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parana.

Player ratings

Gabriel Tigrão was the difference for Parana

Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

37 Edition

The Parana Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 47 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.

Squad

137 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Market

One of our own: Pedro Cunha joins the Parana first team

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

The dugout

Agustín Lara 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 Agustín Lara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

36 Edition

The Parana Post

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: João Ferreira out for 55 days

55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Carvalho out for 144 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parana

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

Alcides Benítez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alcides Benítez commits to Parana for another 3 years.

Boardroom

Parana trim $2.2M from the budget

The money the manager was told he had is now money the manager used to have. $2.2M, gone from the table without a statement, and a dressing room that understands what it means.

In brief

35 Edition

The Parana Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: João Ferreira out for 62 days

62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

152 days out for Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Parana training over how hard people work
  • The dugout Eduardo Rothermel knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout A door opens for Saulo
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Juliano Chade
34 Edition

The Parana Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for João Ferreira

70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

The dugout

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

The dugout

A door opens for Saulo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

33 Edition

The Parana Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.

Squad

Gabriel Tigrão 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Lucas André 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.

The dugout

Lucas Bueno knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Parana have no good answer.

The dugout

A door opens for Saulo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

32 Edition

The Parana Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: João Ferreira out for 84 days

84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

The caretaker keeps it: Willian Cavalcante confirmed

A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.

Squad

Igor Neves signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Igor Neves and Parana agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Market

Parana promote Cristiano Neves from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristiano Neves 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.

Market

Parana promote Rodrigo Correia from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rodrigo Correia 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.

The dugout

Igor Neves is playing like a man with something to prove

The oldest phenomenon in the sport: a new voice in the dressing room and suddenly everybody is available for everything. Igor Neves is training as though the last team sheet never existed, because as far as he is concerned it does not.

Market

Mateus Santana told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mateus Santana has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Parana.

In brief

  • The dugout A door opens for Saulo
  • The dugout Thalys keeps his manager's vote
31 Edition

The Parana Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

João Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduardo Rothermel 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Agustín Lara

“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.

Market

Vinícius Michelon is free to find somewhere else

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

Squad

Felipe Dias is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Felipe Dias has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

Saulo 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 Saulo has written the date down.

Market

Still no ink between Parana and Lucas Werneck

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Parana, another week without a signature from Lucas Werneck.

Market

The shop window has Felipe Dias in it

Parana have let the market know Felipe Dias can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

  • The dugout Lucas Werneck knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Ramon
30 Edition

The Parana Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

The knee: João Ferreira out for 100 days

100 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Bruno Cantanhede 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

Too much change too quickly at Parana

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vinícius Michelon

“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.

In brief

29 Edition

The Parana Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Parana dugout

14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduardo Rothermel 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The Parana Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Parana run out of patience with Eduardo Correia

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Eduardo Correia clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Boardroom

Wesley Fernandes takes charge at Parana

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Market

Henrique Borges steps up from the Parana academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henrique Borges 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: Gabriel Pereira joins the Parana first team

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

The dugout

Eduardo Rothermel 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.

Boardroom

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The dugout

Igor Neves is playing like a man with something to prove

The oldest phenomenon in the sport: a new voice in the dressing room and suddenly everybody is available for everything. Igor Neves is training as though the last team sheet never existed, because as far as he is concerned it does not.

In brief

27 Edition

The Parana Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Parana move for Sean Ryan

The approach has been made to Macarthur FC and the answer is somebody else's to give. These things are settled in private and reported in public, usually in that order.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Saulo

“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.

Squad

A step back for Malcoon at Parana

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout

Eduardo Rothermel 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 Eduardo Rothermel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

26 Edition

The Parana Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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

Agustín Lara 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

7 new faces, and Parana are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

João Ferreira knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Saulo 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 Saulo has written the date down.

In brief

25 Edition

The Parana Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Gabriel Tigrão 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

The dugout

Bruno Dip is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

24 Edition

The Parana Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

Parana count the cost of losing Fenômeno

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Agustín Lara 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

Bruno Cantanhede 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

No place for Agustín Lara in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Parana are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

A door opens for Saulo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

23 Edition

The Parana Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parana

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom

Parana put Eduardo Correia 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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Patrick

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with Atlético Mineiro, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Agustín Lara signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Lara commits to Parana for another 4 years.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Parana count the cost of losing Alcides Benítez

38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Lara 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.

Transfer targets

Parana rebuffed over Valentín Rodríguez

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vinícius Michelon

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout Igor Neves without the man who signed him
  • The dugout Agustín Lara knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout The manager makes Saulo a promise
22 Edition

The Parana Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Parana board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

The dugout

Vinícius Michelon says Parana 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.

Market

Mateus Santana 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 Parana, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Fabricio Pérez

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parana have done the hard part with Estudiantes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Transfer targets

Corinthians tell Parana: Pedro Milans 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.

Squad

Fernando Pileggi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Fernando Pileggi and Parana agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Santos 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Parana

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

21 Edition

The Parana Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Parana baulk at the price for Leonel Pérez

Grêmio wanted more than $3.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Lucas André is a Parana player

The fee is $130.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. São Paulo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

A move Lucas Werneck would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lucas Werneck is living that version at Parana, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Santos 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.

Transfer targets

Parana try to borrow Pedro Milans

Corinthians 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Fabricio Pérez is in the works

Parana have made the call to Estudiantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

A long bet from Parana on Lucas Werneck

He is 20, and nobody at Parana signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Lucas André is a square peg at Parana

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

  • The dugout Bruno Dip is still being punished for one mistake
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Miguel Angelo
  • The dugout A door opens for Saulo
20 Edition

The Parana Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

20 days out for João Ferreira 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.

Transfer targets

Parana bid $2.9M for Leonel Pérez

The offer went to Grêmio this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Vinícius Lira turns down Parana

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Santos keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Parana bid $130.0K for Lucas André

The offer went to São Paulo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Boardroom

Parana beat the market to Léo Agostinho from Corinthians

Corinthians will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Léo Agostinho has pre-agreed a move to Parana, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market

Parana promote Cristiano Freitas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristiano Freitas 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Market

Parana sign Miguel Angelo, one for the future

Miguel Angelo is 20, and Parana have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

19 Edition

The Parana Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

27 days out for João Ferreira 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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Parana boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Transfer targets

Dyogo Alves is a medical away from Parana

The deal with Flamengo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Billal Brahimi turns down Parana

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Santos keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Parana lose Alcides Benítez

69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Transfer targets

Parana rebuffed over Valentín Rodríguez

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

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Transfer targets

Parana ask about Vinícius Lira

A loan enquiry to Santos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

18 Edition

The Parana Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Parana has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

34 days out for João Ferreira 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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

A row about effort at Parana

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Parana

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Lucas Bueno knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

17 Edition

The Parana Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

41 days out for João Ferreira 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Clayton Junior 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Bruno Dip's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Ramon 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.

The dugout

Saulo 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 Saulo has written the date down.

In brief

16 Edition

The Parana Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

74 days out for Marcelão 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.

The dugout

Ramon: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

João Ferreira 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Saulo

“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 dugout

Eduardo Neto 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 Eduardo Neto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

  • Squad The training reports on Eduardo Neto are not good
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Caíque
15 Edition

The Parana Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcelão breaks a bone — 81 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Eduardo Neto: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Parana promote Tiago Monteiro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tiago Monteiro 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.

Squad

João Ferreira 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.

The dugout

Kaio 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 Kaio has written the date down.

In brief

14 Edition

The Parana Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Parana spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A fracture rules Marcelão out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Clayton Junior 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

Parana are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

A door opens for Saulo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

13 Edition

The Parana Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

95 days out for Marcelão 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Boardroom

Guilherme Moura will join Parana for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Guilherme Moura has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Parana have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Squad

Felipe Dias stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Dias and Parana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Parana bring in an old head

Felipe Dias is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Bruno Dip's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

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 dugout

Saulo 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 Saulo has written the date down.

In brief

  • Market Parana pick up Malcoon for nothing
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Kaio
12 Edition

The Parana Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Marcelão out for 102 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

João Ferreira: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Saulo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saulo, and the manager let it.

Squad

Eltinho 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

Juan Véliz is a square peg at Parana

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

11 Edition

The Parana Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcelão breaks a bone — 111 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Gabriel Tigrão 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.

Boardroom

Parana beat the market to Beto from Juventude

Juventude will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Beto has pre-agreed a move to Parana, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market

Parana promote Zeca from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Zeca 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.

Squad

Clayton Junior 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

Juan Véliz stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Véliz and Parana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Experience through the door at Parana

Juan Véliz arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

Flávio Boaventura brings the grey hairs Parana lacked

At 39, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

The dugout

Lucas Bueno 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 Lucas Bueno trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

10 Edition

The Parana Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

119 days out for Marcelão 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Eltinho 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.

In brief

  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Parana
  • The dugout The manager makes Saulo a promise
  • The dugout Mateus Santana knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Lucas Nunes
9 Edition

The Parana Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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.

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eltinho 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.

The dugout

Bruno Dip is still paying for one afternoon at Parana

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

8 Edition

The Parana Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Leandro Carvalho 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

A muscle injury sidelines Bruno Dip for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Parana will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

The formation has left Marcelão behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Parana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Eduardo Neto 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.

The dugout

Kaio 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 Kaio has written the date down.

Market

The shop window has Lucas Gabriel in it

Parana have let the market know Lucas Gabriel can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

  • Squad Questions about Cristian Santos on the training pitch
  • The dugout Ramon keeps his manager's vote
7 Edition

The Parana Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leandro Carvalho 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Parana promote Rafael Monteiro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rafael Monteiro 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.

Market

Parana promote Antônio Assis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antônio Assis 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.

Squad

Eltinho 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

The formation has left Gabriel Tigrão behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Parana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Eduardo Neto 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

6 Edition

The Parana Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Juliano Chade keeps Parana in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

7 matches without a win for Parana

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Parana are no longer polite ones.

Match

Parana are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Parana come up short against Criciuma

Criciuma left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Liliu 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Saulo

“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.

Squad

Eltinho 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

Parana are still strangers to each other

17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Eduardo Correia faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eduardo Correia after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Kaio
  • Player ratings Igor Neves was unplayable
  • The dugout Kaio knocks on the manager’s door
5 Edition

The Parana Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Parana

6 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.

Match

Parana leaking at the back

6 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

Liliu 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Parana against America Mineiro

1‑3 to America Mineiro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Clayton Junior

“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 dugout

Eduardo Correia faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eduardo Correia after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Kaio

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Bruno Dip's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

The shirt belongs to Leandro Carvalho now

At 31 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Parana have a decision that made itself.

In brief

4 Edition

The Parana Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Parana's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parana has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Parana

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

A falling-out at Parana

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

Squad

Words at Parana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eltinho 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.

Match

Igor Neves’s goal not enough for Parana

Igor Neves scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sampaio Correa, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juliano Chade

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ramon

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Eduardo Correia answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Ueslei gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Parana lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ueslei's mistake
  • Looking ahead A test against the best for Parana
  • The dugout Parana pick somebody else ahead of Cristian Santos
3 Edition

The Parana Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Parana

A 0‑4 beating by Atletico Goianiense was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Juliano Chade

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

The small margins put Parana out

Out, 1‑5 to Botafogo, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Botafogo leaves Parana explaining themselves

1-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Match

4 matches without a win for Parana

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Parana are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Parana

Luis Salazar 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.

Match

6 goals as Parana and Botafogo go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Parana and Botafogo, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A row about effort at Parana

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

Match

Parana are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

In brief

  • The dugout Eduardo Neto gets it from the manager
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Parana dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
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Squad

Luis Salazar 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 Parana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Liliu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Igor Neves’s goal not enough for Parana

Igor Neves scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Oeste, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

One of our own: Fenômeno joins the Parana first team

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

Market

Parana promote João Rangel from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. João Rangel 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.

Market

Biel steps up from the Parana academy

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

Parana promote Rafael Lopes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rafael Lopes 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.

Squad

200 appearances for Liliu

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

No hiding place for João Ferreira

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to João Ferreira, and the manager let it.

In brief

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3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Juliano Chade

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Eltinho stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Eltinho and Parana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Parana

Luis Salazar 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

Eltinho 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.

Match

Nautico take the points off Parana

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

No place for Vinícius Michelon in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vinícius Michelon has his answer from Parana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Talks stall between Parana and Eltinho

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Eduardo Correia faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eduardo Correia after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Caíque 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.

In brief