The Ponte Preta Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Jonathan Cafu out for 51 days
51 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ponte Preta lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Vinícius Ferrari keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ponte Preta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Vinícius Ferrari
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vinícius Ferrari will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ponte Preta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Ponte Preta to lose Vinícius Ferrari for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Vinícius Ferrari has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Vitinho at Ponte Preta
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vitinho is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ponte Preta
Danilo Barcelos 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sergio Palacios falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of David Braz
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Tárik faces his old club
Ypiranga next, and one man in the Ponte Preta dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Market The Jonathan Cafu question follows Ponte Preta around
- The dugout Thiago Coelho asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Rodrigo Souza has been promised minutes