João Paulo

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
Midfield
Cape Verde
our board
#1282
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
522′
7 appearances
npxG + xA per 90
0.40
91th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Cape Verde. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

goals
0
assists
0
caps
7
minutes
522′

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Cape Verde · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1548 ±54

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

1576 full roster Elo (+28 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 Cape Verde's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1521
age curve at 27 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -3
attacking output, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +30
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1548
form: national-team results, 7 appearances522 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +28
full roster Elo · with results: 1576

Rating trend

-110 over 8 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +30 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: 0.40 npxG + xA per 90
his rank: 91th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: the open StatsBomb archive, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(90.7th) = 46 × 1.32 × 0.5 (position weight) = +30

Where the +28 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

World Cup finals2 apps · 112′: +4
internationals, qualifiers & cups5 apps · 410′: +24

His latest nights

2026-06-27World Cup finals · 94′▲ +1
2026-06-15World Cup finals · 18′ · team result only▲ +3
2024-02-03internationals, qualifiers & cups · 120′ · team result only▼ −0
2024-01-29internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▲ +4
2024-01-22internationals, qualifiers & cups · 20′ · team result only▲ +1

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-27. 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.

At this World Cup

What the tournament has done to his rating since the first whistle on 11 Jun, and the matches behind it. Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own performance, shrunk for sample size, so a strong game nudges the number rather than spiking it.

▲ +4

2 appearances · 112′ · 1 graded by his own stats

The matches behind it

06-27drew · 94′ · his stats graded▲ +1
06-15drew · 18′ · team result only▲ +3

The same movement shown beside his name on the board, opened up. “Team result only” marks nights the feed carried no player stats. A forward-only shadow signal; it never touches 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
#1282 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +10 in one sitting, internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2024-01-19.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +28 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

2026-02-02Oţelul → FCSBundisclosed
2025-07-01Sheriff Tiraspol → Oţelulfree
2023-07-01Feirense → Sheriff Tiraspolfree
2021-07-09Leça → Feirenseundisclosed

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Cape Verde’s record

v Saudi Arabia0–0Called it
at Uruguay2–2Missed it
at Spain0–0Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Cape Verde. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.