Danilo Monteiro

Left Forward - Vila Nova U18
12 Jan 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Danilo Monteiro

53 Edition

The Vila Nova Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Danilo Monteiro says Vila Nova 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Vila Nova

Marquinhos Gabriel 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

Words at Vila Nova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Moreno 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

The window shuts on the Pedro Peçanha deal

Vila Nova ran out of time with Cascavel. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Marquinhos Gabriel

“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

Otávio Passos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Otávio Passos and Vila Nova agree another 2 years.

Market

Still no ink between Vila Nova and Helton Leite

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vila Nova, another week without a signature from Helton Leite.

Player ratings

Janderson was the difference for Vila Nova

Marked 7.44. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Léo Gomes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Léo Gomes is on it.

In brief

  • Squad No place for Bochecha in the new shape
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Loan watch 7 clean sheets on loan for Glauco
Back issues
38 Edition

The Vila Nova Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dellatorre

49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vila Nova lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Matheus Jussa out for 43 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vila Nova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Nathan Camargo says Vila Nova 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Vila Nova

Léo Gomes 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.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Vila Nova

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.

Squad

Words at Vila Nova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djalma 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.

Match

Vila Nova find a way past Avaí

Avaí made Vila Nova work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Alexis González Duarte

At 22 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.

Market

Vila Nova promote Lucas Viana from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Viana 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.

In brief