José Sá

Goalkeeper, 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
32
sourced with the squad
position
Goalkeeper
Portugal
our board
#765
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2295′
26 appearances
goals prevented per shot on target faced
-0.19
12th percentile of peers

On the pitch

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

goals
0
assists
0
caps
3
minutes
225′

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

Sourced

squad: Portugal · Goalkeeperfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1720 ±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

1711 full roster Elo (−8 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

potential ~1712 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the goalkeeper age curve

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: 1773
age curve at 32 (goalkeepers' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior: 0
shot-stopping vs xG in club football, our modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: -53
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1720
form: national-team results, 26 appearances2295 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -8
full roster Elo · with results: 1711

Rating trend

-43 over 27 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 -53 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: -0.19 goals prevented per shot on target faced
his rank: 12th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons, our post-shot (xGOT) model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(12.3th) = 46 × -1.16 = -53

Where the -8 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.

internationals, qualifiers & cups2 apps · 180′: -2
international friendlies1 app · 45′: +1
club football23 apps · 2070′: -7

His latest nights

2026-06-06international friendlies · 45′ · team result only▲ +1
2026-05-24club football · 90′ · team result only▲ +1
2026-05-17club football · 90′ · team result only▲ +1
2026-04-25club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −5
2026-04-10club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −6

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 2026-06-06. 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
#765 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +11 in one sitting, club football, 2026-02-27.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 88′ a night across 26 folded appearances.

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: €8m (2021-07). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2021-07-15Olympiakos Piraeus → Wolves€8m
2018-08-31FC Porto → Olympiakos Piraeusundisclosed

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.