Doido

Left Midfielder - Altos U18
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Doido

22 Edition

The Altos Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Altos are in real trouble now

Position 15, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

The dugout

Pedro Figueiredo says Altos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Carlão will not be coming to Altos

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Botafogo-SP is saying, and nobody at Altos is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Altos

Willyam Maranhão 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Altos

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

Transfer targets

Altos try to borrow Alberto Medina

Oriental have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Daniel Soares is in the works

Altos have made the call to Brasil de Pelotas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

A long bet from Altos on Borges

He is 20, and nobody at Altos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Araujo is a square peg at Altos

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Altos Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Araujo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Altos have done the hard part with Corinthians, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bruno Silva rejects the move

Altos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Goianésia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Rodrigo Lobão 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Altos

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

Squad

Altos are still strangers to each other

12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

No place for Carlos Junior in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Altos are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

20 Edition

The Altos Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Kayke is a medical away from Altos

The deal with Corinthians is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bahia rejects the move

Altos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Corinthians, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words at Altos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Lobão 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.

Transfer targets

Horizonte tell Altos: Rafael Farias is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Pedro Oliveira 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 Altos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

José Lima steps up from the Altos academy

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

One of our own: Doido joins the Altos first team

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

Transfer targets

Altos try to borrow Guilherme Aquino

Coritiba have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Marcelo is a square peg at Altos

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief