Carbone

Central Defender - Juventude
29 Nov 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Carbone

119 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Gabriel Soares has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Diogo Barbosa 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 Juventude this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Carbone signs a new deal

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

In brief

Back issues
118 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Léo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Léo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventude the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventude

Diogo Barbosa 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

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Báez

“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

108 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Marcos Paulo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Alan Ruschel keeps the receipts

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Alan Ruschel

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alan Ruschel will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventude the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventude

Gabriel Taliari 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

Gabriel Taliari in the eights

A performance of 9.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Juventude find a way past Sampaio Correa

Sampaio Correa made Juventude work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Keyrol Figueroa in the eights

A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Carbone 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

Gabriel Taliari is carrying Juventude

4 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

101 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marcos Paulo

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Natã Felipe asks to leave Juventude

“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.

Player ratings

Lucas Mineiro shuts the door

Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Igor Ribeiro: 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.” Juventude have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Juventude get their man

The chase for Kauan Toledo ended with $430.0K changing hands and Botafogo out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Gabriel Taliari 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 Juventude this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 unbeaten for Juventude

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Juventude did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Josh Laqeretabua gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Messias

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

100 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Diogo Barbosa asks to leave Juventude

“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.

Squad

Davi Gabriel keeps the receipts

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Davi Gabriel

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Davi Gabriel will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventude the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventude

Gabriel Taliari 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

One of those days for Gabriel Taliari

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Manuel Castro in the eights

A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Juventude get the job done against Criciuma

A 2‑1 win over Criciuma, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

One of those days for Marcos Paulo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Carbone

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

In brief

85 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Natã Felipe 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 Juventude, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Raí Ramos: 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.” Juventude have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Juventude turn down Chicago Fire for João Scatolin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

In brief

38 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Beckham Castro asks to leave Lugano

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Lugano

Mattia Zanotti 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

Lugano count the cost of losing Hadj Mahmoud

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

In brief

37 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mattia Zanotti 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 Lugano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Lukas Mai 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

Carbone 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