Menezes

Central Defender - Retired
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Marked for Menezes

14 Edition

The Joinville Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Joinville

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

Squad2 Nov 2026

Darío Arias 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Menezes is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Menezes 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Emilio Troncoso makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

When it matters, Antonio Porto plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Vitor Assis: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Match31 Oct 2026

Joinville and Itabirito cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Itabirito came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Foguete is still paying for one afternoon at Joinville

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.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Danilo Saavedra 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 Joinville, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Joinville Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Joinville

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

Squad26 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Foguete

At 16 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Niltinho 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.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Willian Daltro was the difference for Joinville

Marked 7.68. 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 dugout26 Oct 2026

Augusto Galván is still paying for one afternoon at Joinville

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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Vitor Assis was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Joinville dressing room was either.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

A defender's afternoon for Menezes

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Augusto Galván could not find anything

4.51. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Kennedy has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Joinville will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief