Danilo Alves

Attacking Midfielder (L) - América Mineiro U18
10 Feb 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Danilo Alves

49 Edition

The América Mineiro Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Danilo Alves out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. América Mineiro lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Bruno Brígido

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

América Mineiro out of the cup

Vitória ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Vitória leaves América Mineiro explaining themselves

1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Transfer targets

América Mineiro agree $190.0K for Matheus Alves

The clubs have shaken hands with ABC; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

América Mineiro say no — this time

The offer from Ferroviária for Gabriel Barros was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Bruno Brígido 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 The request is on a desk at América Mineiro, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Vintage Gonzalo Mastriani — 7.83

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.83, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

A falling-out at América Mineiro

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

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The América Mineiro Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Danilo Alves out for 26 days

26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. América Mineiro lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Gustavo keeps América Mineiro in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Gonzalo Mastriani yet — 7.88

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Tobías Ostchega has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether América Mineiro can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market

Ferroviária join the queue for Gabriel Barros

Add another name to the list: Ferroviária have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gabriel Barros. The answer from América Mineiro has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets

América Mineiro rebuffed over Leandro

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. São Bernardo have kept their man, and América Mineiro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

América Mineiro see off Criciúma

Three points for América Mineiro, 2‑1 the final word against Criciúma in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Rodrigo Piñeiro falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriel Barros

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

In brief

47 Edition

The América Mineiro Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Danilo Alves out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. América Mineiro lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A row about effort at América Mineiro

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

Transfer targets

América Mineiro rebuffed over Rodrigo Dourado

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Club America have kept their man, and América Mineiro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Gonzalo Mastriani’s goal not enough for América Mineiro

Gonzalo Mastriani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Avaí, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Eduardo Person

“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.

Squad

América Mineiro count the cost of losing Pedro Vinicius

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

The dugout

Diego Machado: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

América Mineiro ask about Iván Ramírez

A loan enquiry to Olimpia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

The formation has left Thayllon behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. América Mineiro will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

2 Edition

The América Mineiro Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Henrique Trevisan gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Henrique Trevisan has just signed for América Mineiro, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Gonzalo Mastriani 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 América Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

América Mineiro get the job done against Atlético Goianiense

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

Market

Danilo Alves steps up from the América Mineiro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danilo Alves 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

Rodrigo steps up from the América Mineiro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rodrigo 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

América Mineiro promote André Tavares from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. André Tavares 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.

Market

América Mineiro promote Mineiro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mineiro 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.

Player ratings

Alê stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.78 on the card, and the América Mineiro support went home talking about one name.

Match

Honours even between América Mineiro and Botafogo-SP

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief