Lavinho

Lavinho stands tall with tanned skin and a mullet whose shaved sides carry a checkerboard motif in shifting colors. Ink runs the length of both arms, and he usually keeps a pair of glasses on, setting them aside only once a match begins. Away from the game he favors a bare chest paired with shorts and a necklace, while in competition he pulls on FC Barcha's red and yellow striped kit numbered 87, finished with black gloves.

Free-spirited and theatrical, Lavinho lets his eccentric outlook bleed straight into how he plays, a trait he shares with Meguru Bachira. He crowns himself the finest player alive and rarely doubts it. Taking the Spain master's chair pleased him, yet he had little interest in drilling the stratum's recruits directly. He would rather lay out his personal outlook and trust each player to twist his words into their own spark of inspiration.

As a dribbler, Lavinho builds chances and finishes them by slipping past markers with abrupt shifts of pace and direction. His ball control borders on absurd, so fluid that defenders lunging to intercept often topple over, unable to match the rhythm of his so-called dance. He threads this through Ginga, a capoeira concept that has him picture himself as a butterfly drifting over the grass, unlocking flexible, unpredictable movement. From that image springs Rising Dance, where he rainbow-flicks over one opponent then uses that same body as a screen against a second. During the star-change phase of the Bastard versus Barcha clash he tapped into Flow State, exploiting Yoichi Isagi to escape Noel Noa before carving through the rest of the defense to score.