Kevin Viveros nears career best at Athletico-PR | OneFootball

It’s no secret to anyone that striker Kevin Viveros is enjoying the best moment of his career. The Athletico-PR forward is the top scorer in the Brazilian Championship with 18 goals and has become the team’s main standout in its surprising 2026 campaign.

These numbers earned Kevin Viveros the experience of his first call-up to the Colombian national team and the start of his journey with the squad aiming for the 2026 World Cup. In addition to reaching team milestones with Furacão, the stats show the player is very close to breaking individual records as well.

The closest one at the moment is the possibility of making 2026 the highest-scoring year of his career. Besides his goals in the Brazilian Championship, the striker also scored once in the Campeonato Paranaense. As a result, he has 19 goals this season. That puts him close to the 22 goals he scored in 2022, when he was playing in Venezuela.

That year, Viveros was returning to football after spending a year without playing due to bureaucratic issues with his club in Colombia. In resuming his career, with Carabobo, Viveros scored 21 goals in 34 matches. It was at Carabobo that the striker began to be called “El Tren.”

Now, with Athletico-PR, the player has 19 goals in 32 matches. Furacão only has the Brazilian Championship left to play, in which the team has already played 27 matches. That means Viveros will have 11 more rounds ahead to at least match his 2022 mark. In other words, if he scores three goals in 11 matches, the striker will definitively have the best year of his career.

Viveros’ good form is reflected in Athletico

Meanwhile, Furacão continues to enjoy a strong Brazilian Championship campaign and still believes it can win the title. However, it sees securing a place in the group stage of the 2027 Copa Libertadores as its main objective.

Currently, Furacão sits in third place with 46 points. The team faces Bahia next Sunday, the 20th, at 7:30 p.m. (Brasília time), in a direct clash for third place. At the moment, the gap to Flamengo, the Brasileirão leader, is 11 points.

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