Zeca

Right Midfielder - Remo U18
3 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Zeca

2 Edition

The Remo Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A move Deysinho would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Deysinho is living that version at Remo, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Yago Pikachu yet — 7.85

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.85 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by João Lucas — 6.83

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 19 actions, 6.83, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Leonel Picco stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonel Picco and Remo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Remo

Leonel Picco 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.

Match

Carlinhos the difference as Remo beat Operário Ferroviário

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Carlinhos. 2‑1 against Operário Ferroviário, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Patrick

“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.

Market

One of our own: Matheus Mendes joins the Remo first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matheus Mendes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Remo promote Zeca from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Zeca has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief