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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
37
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Cape Verde
our board
#1396
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
180′
2 appearances

Sourced

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

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1501 ±68

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

1491 full roster Elo (−10 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 37 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -20
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1501
form: national-team results, 2 appearances180 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -10
full roster Elo · with results: 1491

Rating trend

-81 over 3 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 -10 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.

club football2 apps · 180′: -10

His latest nights

2026-05-28club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −8
2026-05-20club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −2

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 2026-05-28. 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
#1396 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 10 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.
the rough one
The night that cost him most: −8 – club football, 2026-05-28. We don't erase those.

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.

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.