André Cunha

Striker - Sergipe U18
2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for André Cunha

7 Edition

The Sergipe Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Lulinha out for 55 days

55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sergipe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Sergipe run riot against Santa Cruz de Natal

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.

Player ratings

Davi Santos scores twice — 8.55

Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Mateus Anderson's — 8.20

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.20, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vintage Filipe Ramón — 8.04

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.04, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Sergipe — 7.64

1 for Rodrigo Dantas, marked 7.64, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Transfer targets

Luís Pires turns down Sergipe

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Sergipe

Luquinhas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

André Cunha steps up from the Sergipe academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. André Cunha has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief