The Ponte Preta Post
Squad17 Aug 2026
A day William Pottker will not forget
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ponte Preta run riot against Confiança
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match12 Aug 2026
Ponte Preta out of the cup
Tuna Luso ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Jonathan Cafu yet — 8.28
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.28 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Miguel runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of William Pottker at his very best
Marked 10.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ponte Preta.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ponte Preta
Bryan Borges was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Rodrigo Saravia
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Ponte Preta dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout David Braz gets it from the manager
- Squad Words at Ponte Preta training over how hard people work