Manuel Castro

Right Midfielder - Juventude
25 Nov 2026
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Marked for Manuel Castro

10 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market5 Oct 2026

Luiz Mandaca 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 The request is on a desk at Juventude, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Juventude

Gabriel Taliari 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Marcos Paulo’s goal not enough for Juventude

Marcos Paulo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Grêmio, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Messias

“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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Manuel Castro wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Juventude know it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Juventude are still strangers to each other

18 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Alex Queiroz faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Alex Queiroz after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Messias suspended

One booking too many, and Messias sits out. Juventude lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Alan Ruschel 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 Alan Ruschel is on it.

In brief

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9 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Jandrei keeps Juventude in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match22 Sep 2026

Juventude bow out of the cup

Flamengo go through and Juventude go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Boardroom28 Sep 2026

Léo has agreed to leave Juventude for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Gabriel Taliari 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 Juventude this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Lucas Mineiro

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

Match26 Sep 2026

Honours even between Juventude and Atlético Mineiro

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

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Alex Queiroz: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Manuel Castro beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The first one for Alisson Safira

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Juventude have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief

1 Edition

The Juventude Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jandrei stands alone

11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gabriel Taliari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Taliari commits to Juventude for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Juventude

Gabriel Taliari 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Alverca watching Caíque

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Juventude have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match1 Aug 2026

Marcos Paulo sends Juventude past Internacional

It finished 1‑0, and it was Marcos Paulo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Juventude.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Gabriel Taliari's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gustavo Silva is a square peg at Juventude

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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Rodrigo Sam

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Alex Queiroz: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief