Roni

Attacking Midfielder (R) - São José U18
1 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Roni

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The São José Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Ezequiel González scores twice — 8.45

Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at São José

William Barbio 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

Ezequiel González sends São José past Operário-MS

It finished 2‑1, and it was Ezequiel González’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to São José.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by David Junio — 7.33

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. 12 actions, 7.33, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The terraces

One of their own: Felipe Cardoso

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

This league is too small for Charles Raphael

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. São José will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Squad

São José count the cost of losing Cristiano Costa

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at São José

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

A satisfied José Soares

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, José Soares could afford to be generous.

In brief

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The São José Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A debut Lucas Batista will not forget — 10.00

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 5 on the scoresheet, 10.00 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

A day Lucas Batista will not forget

5 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Lucas Batista leads the rout of São Luiz

9‑0, and Lucas Batista took the headlines on an afternoon when everything São José tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

A day Caio Amaral will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Tempers go at São José

Pedro Lucas 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.

Match

9 goals as São José and São Luiz go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between São José and São Luiz, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom

São José agree a free transfer for Rodrigo Dias

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The terraces

One of their own: Caio Amaral

He is 14 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

One of our own: Matheus Carvalho joins the São José first team

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

In brief