Perninha

Left Back - Cuiabá U18
15 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Perninha

15 Edition

The Cuiabá Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Émerson Ramon

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Émerson Ramon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cuiabá the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Émerson Ramon was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Cuiabá

Fernando Sobral 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.

Market

Cuiabá promote Perninha from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Perninha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cuiabá against CRB

0‑1 to CRB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Cuiabá training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Knesowitsch is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Knesowitsch

“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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Willian Figueiredo left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market

Still no ink between Cuiabá and Émerson Ramon

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cuiabá, another week without a signature from Émerson Ramon.

In brief