Júnior Silva

Goalkeeper - Independência U18
12 Feb 2028
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The Independência Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom17 Jan 2028

Pressure builds in the Independência boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market17 Jan 2028

Independência turn down Pouso Alegre for Allan Vitor

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

No thanks: Nicolas Begliardi rejects the move

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

Squad17 Jan 2028

Vitor 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 Independência this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Independência rebuffed over Osório

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

Squad17 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Independência

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

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Luiz Felipe knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luiz Felipe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market17 Jan 2028

The Bernardo Daciolo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bernardo Daciolo signs something — a contract at Independência or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market17 Jan 2028

Wilson placed on the list

Independência have made Wilson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

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The Independência Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 Apr 2027

Thiago Gabriel leads the rout of Manauara

3‑0, and Thiago Gabriel took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Independência tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Eduardo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independência may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Thiago Gabriel goes up and wins it — 7.47

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.47 for the rest of it.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Up for the corner, and Luiz Fernando delivers — 7.60

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Luiz Fernando scored, was marked 7.60, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Independência

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

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Independência

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Abner 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.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Wages swallow 293% of the Independência income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The terraces19 Apr 2027

The crowd has taken to Bernardo Daciolo

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief