Goal efficiency
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Sharjah FC · AFC Champions League Two · Attacker · #90 · Brazil · 26 yrs
Saldanha plays as an attacker for Sharjah FC. Saldanha is a Brazilian international, 26 years old, attacker, currently at Sharjah FC. Saldanha wears shirt number 90 for Sharjah FC. Saldanha was born in Uberaba, Brazil on 1999-08-18. Saldanha is 185 cm tall and weighs 78 kg. Saldanha's Sportra profile tracks season statistics across NB I, UEFA Europa Conference League, Cup, FA Cup, and other leagues. Saldanha's page brings together career clubs, trophies, injury history, multi-competition stats, and related news headlines. On Sportra you can explore Saldanha season statistics, transfer history, trophies, injury updates, and related news across every competition tracked in the profile.
| Date | Type | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | Loan |  Al-Wasl FC WAS |  Sharjah FC SHA |
| 2025-07-11 | Transfer |  Ferencvarosi TC FER | Al-Wasl FC WAS |
| 2024-09-02 | N/A |  FK Partizan PAR | Ferencvarosi TC FER |
Season intelligence
Profile as Attacker: balanced output without a single dominant trait. Archetype: Balanced contributor. Season rating 6.9.
Scaled 0–99 from season output — map to fantasy, comparisons, or scouting cards.
Per-90 rates, efficiency ratios, and Sportra indices from season totals.
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Playmaking output: assists, key passes, and custom chance-creation signals.
Isolation threat and progressive carrying — volume plus success rate.
How often they draw fouls and stay out of trouble with cards.
Tackles, duels, and off-ball defensive contribution.
Shot-stopping, goals conceded, and penalty saves.
Minutes, availability, and how central they were to the team.
Every tracked category for this league and season, grouped by Sportra.
In this extract from their forthcoming book on South America and the World Cup, Mark Biram and Tim Vickery describe a Seleçao’s strange buildup to the classic tournamentIn January 1969, João Saldanha was appointed as Brazil’s coach. Saldanha was barely a coach – he had had a brief spell in charge of Botafogo more than a decade earlier. He was an immensely popular football journalist, who with typewriter or microphone had the fluent gift of communication, talking about the game in language that was both fresh and straightforward, easy to understand. And he was so much more. He was a charismatic powerhouse, who claimed to have popped up at many key moments in history, usually in the service of international communism. Because, yes, at the right-wing height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, a communist was appointed to coach the national football team.João Havelange, the president of the Brazilian sports confederation, knew what he was doing. At a stroke, he had cut away all the intrigue and politicking which was surrounding the side. Saldanha’s opening move was to announce his starting lineup and his reserves. No argument, no discussion, no balancing off one region against the other. Just one man picking the team. And it worked. Brazil sailed through qualification for the 1970 World Cup. Continue reading...
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