Larson

Defensive Midfielder - Palmeiras
30 Nov 2026
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Marked for Larson

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The Palmeiras Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Palmeiras run riot against Juventude

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match

The cup run ends for Palmeiras

2‑3 against Vitória, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

José Manuel López scores twice — 9.98

Two goals and a mark of 9.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Vitor Roque scores twice — 8.87

Two goals and a mark of 8.87 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Jefté 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.

Player ratings

Larson, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72

A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Gustavo Gómez for 16 days

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Palmeiras

Alexander Barboza 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

Luís Pacheco signs a new deal

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

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The Palmeiras Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Carlos Miguel keeps Palmeiras in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

4 goals for Ramón Sosa

The match ball belongs to Ramón Sosa, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

Ramón Sosa sends Palmeiras through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Ramón Sosa obliged against Boa. 5‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Palmeiras.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jefté

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Vitor Roque, 21, steals the show — 8.47

Marked 8.47 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Palmeiras make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Palmeiras have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Palmeiras

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

Match

7 goals as Palmeiras and Boa go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Palmeiras and Boa, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A row about effort at Palmeiras

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

In brief