Harvard University

Career Highs:

Goals: --
Assists: 1 (5x, last vs. Stonehill, 10/23/24)
Points: 1 (5x, last vs. Stonehill, 10/23/24) 

2024 • Junior:

Earned CSC Academic All-District … Played in and started 12 games as an outside back … Tallied four points, four assists, seven shots, five shots on goal, and 908 minutes played on the season … Ranked first on the team and 10^th in the Ivy League in assists (four) … Stood third on the team in minutes played (908) … Posted one assist in each of four games – vs. Holy Cross (Aug. 31), vs. Merrimack (Oct. 1), at Yale (Oct. 12), and vs. Stonehill (Oct. 23) … Played 70 or more minutes in each of nine games … Appeared in a season-high 90 minutes in each of two games – at Northeastern (Sept. 17) and at Yale (Oct. 12). 

2023 • Sophomore:

Played in 13 games with eight starts; missed some time due to injury … Tallied three shots, one shot on goal, and 730 minutes played on the season … Competed for 45 or more minutes in each of 11 games … Appeared in 60 or more minutes in each of seven games. 

2022 • First-year:

Played in 16 games with five starts … Made three starts in Ivy League play … Tallied one assist, one point, three shots, two shots on goal, and 702 minutes on the season … Notched an assist vs. Quinnipiac (Sept. 17) … Played 45 or more minutes in each of eight contests … Played a season-high 77 minutes at Cornell (Oct. 1).

Before Harvard:

Selected for the U.S. U18 and U19 National Team player pools … Earned All-America and All-State honors in 2021 … Ranked as the top prospect from the New England Revolution and as the No. 73 prospect in the Class of 2022 according to TopDrawerSoccer … Earned ISL Best XI and a top-10 ranking in the Class of 2022 from New England Soccer Journal; also selected to publication’s Underclassmen Best XI list in 2019 … Offered a USL League 1 Academy contract in 2020 … Ranked in the top 50 of New England’s U17 and U19 developmental academy players in 2019 … Participated in U.S. U14 domestic training camps in 2016 and 2017, competing in international matches against Dinamo Zagreb and Croatia … Helped team win Independent School League title in 2019 … Reached NEPSAC Class A title game in 2019 … Won the U14 International Champions Cup in 2017 … Served team as captain as a senior … Competed on the club level for the New England Revolution Academy … Performed as an actor and singer at Milton Academy … Helped collect equipment for youth soccer players in Cape Verde … Son of Agi Sardi and Joao Resende-Santos; Joao graduated from the Harvard Graduate School for Arts and Sciences in 1997 … Mother’s side of the family immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary and father’s side of the family came to the U.S. from Cape Verde.