Offence, Portugal
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
40
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
Portugal
our board
#760
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
4887′
60 appearances
npxG + xA per 90
0.62
99th percentile of peers
On the pitch
Goals for Portugal, on the record and counted.
goals
2
assists
0
caps
38
minutes
2996′
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Portugal · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1721 ±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
1778 full roster Elo (+56 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 Portugal's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1638
- age curve at 40 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -22
- attacking output, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +105
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1721
- form: national-team results, 60 appearances4887 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +56
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1778
Rating trend
-224 over 61 updatesSeeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.
Where the +105 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
- 0.62 npxG + xA per 90
- his rank
- 99th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the open StatsBomb archive, every shot scored by our own xG model
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(98.9th) = 46 × 2.29 = +105
Where the +56 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 finals8 apps · 565′
- +5
- internationals, qualifiers & cups28 apps · 2321′
- +16
- international friendlies2 apps · 110′
- +2
- club football22 apps · 1891′
- +34
His latest nights
- 2026-06-27World Cup finals · 90′▼ −3
- 2026-06-23World Cup finals · 94′▲ +11
- 2026-06-17World Cup finals · 90′▼ −5
- 2026-06-10international friendlies · 65′ · team result only▲ +1
- 2026-06-06international friendlies · 45′ · 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.
▲ +3
3 appearances · 274′ · 3 graded by his own stats
The matches behind it
- 06-27drew · 90′ · his stats graded▼ −3
- 06-23won by 5 · 94′ · his stats graded▲ +11
- 06-17drew · 90′ · his stats graded▼ −5
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
#760 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +18 in one sitting, World Cup finals, 2022-11-28.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +56 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: €20m (2021-08). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
- 2021-08-31Juventus → Manchester United€20m
- 2018-07-10Real Madrid → Juventus€100m
- 2009-07-01Manchester United → Real Madrid€94m
- 2003-07-01Sporting CP → Manchester United€18m
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Portugal’s record
- at Colombia0–0Missed it
- v Uzbekistan5–0Called it
- v DR Congo1–1Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Portugal. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced