Defence, Brazil
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
27
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Brazil
our board
#952
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2494′
31 appearances
possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
3.02
40th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Brazil · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1670 ±45
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1739 full roster Elo (+69 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
at or near his peak, no projected upside from age
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Brazil's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1674
- age curve at 27 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
- +0
- defensive actions in club football, possession-adjustedhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- -5
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1670
- form: national-team results, 31 appearances2494 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +69
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1739
Where the -5 skill term comes from
Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.
- measured
- 3.02 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
- his rank
- 40th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- recent club seasons (api-football), an individual box-stat proxy, possession-adjusted; volume, not a quality verdict
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(40.0th) = 46 × -0.25 × 0.4 (position weight) = -5
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-13. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#952 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +69 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.
The fee record · sourced
The market’s last public word: €29m (2023-08). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
- 2023-08-10AS Roma → Al-Ahli Jeddah€29m
- 2021-07-01Atalanta → AS Roma€9m
- 2020-01-27Atalanta → AS Romaloan
- 2019-01-29Fluminense → Atalanta€4m
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Brazil’s record
- v Japan2–1Called it
- at Scotland0–3Called it
- v Haiti3–0Called it
- v Morocco1–1Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Brazil. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced