The Ponte Preta Post
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Thiago Coelho says Ponte Preta went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Júlio at Ponte Preta
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Júlio is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bryan Borges pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Ponte Preta
Danilo Barcelos and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Diego Tavares
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
Late, late show earns Ponte Preta a point
Minute 94, against São Bernardo, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Jaime Vásquez
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Ponte Preta is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Match3 Oct 2026
Bruno Lopes rescues a point for Ponte Preta
It needed Bruno Lopes to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against São Bernardo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Pacheco
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pacheco, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Jean Carlos is free to find somewhere else
- Market Jaime Vásquez brings the grey hairs Ponte Preta lacked