Roberto Nardo

Goalkeeper - Santos U18
1 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Roberto Nardo

95 Edition

The Santos Chronicle

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Santos give the job to Guilherme Barbosa

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Squad

Roberto Nardo damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Santos out of the cup

Santa Cruz ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Tempers go at Santos

Zé Rafael 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

Nobody could get near Álvaro Barreal

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Santos get the job done against Vitória

A 1‑0 win over Vitória, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Santos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rony is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Inquest at Santos

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Kristian Strømland Lien

7.80, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Santos had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

Back issues
38 Edition

The Santos Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Pradella settles it late for Santos

The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Pradella decided nobody was going anywhere. Internacional had no time left to answer.

Squad

Miguel Antonio: 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.” Santos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Lucas Veríssimo 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 Santos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Santos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Neymar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Santos

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

The terraces

Santos supporters have found a favourite in Pradella

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Pradella 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.

Player ratings

Neymar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Renato Nogueira steps up from the Santos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Renato Nogueira has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Rafael Borges steps up from the Santos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rafael Borges has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief