Gustavo

Goalkeeper - America Mineiro
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Gustavo

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The America Mineiro Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Artur runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Alejo Sánchez Roa due for a America Mineiro medical

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

Squad

Gonzalo Mastriani 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 America Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Val Soares has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether America Mineiro can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gustavo

“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.

Match

America Mineiro come up short against Parana

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

Squad

America Mineiro 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

Bruno Oliveira faces the questions

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

Squad

A row about effort at America Mineiro

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

In brief

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The America Mineiro Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gustavo

There were 7 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Gonzalo Mastriani yet — 8.62

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.62 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Torpedo Kutaisi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and America Mineiro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

America Mineiro may not be able to give Tobías Ostchega what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Tobías Ostchega wants continental football; whether America Mineiro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Boardroom

Yago Santos has agreed to leave America Mineiro for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market

Yago Santos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around America Mineiro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at America Mineiro

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

Match

America Mineiro find a way past Criciuma

Criciuma made America Mineiro work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

America Mineiro supporters have found a favourite in Yarlen

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Yarlen has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

  • Squad Words at America Mineiro training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Val Soares at his very best
  • Squad Louco stays put