Schaffer

Central Defender - Juventude U20
8 Jul 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Schaffer

30 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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.

Loan watch

João Scatolin has seen enough of Ypiranga

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Juventude, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Táles

“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.

The dugout

Caíque has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Juventude 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.

Market

The Gabriel Taliari talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juventude know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch

Ênio keeps scoring at Chapecoense

18 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief