Roberto Lezcano

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Envigado
29 Feb 2032
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Marked for Roberto Lezcano

269 Edition

The Envigado Herald

22 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad22 Sep 2031

Words exchanged at Envigado

Juan Manuel Zapata 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.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Cesar Rubio is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.26 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Words at Envigado training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cesar Rubio 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.

Match20 Sep 2031

Cesar Rubio sends Envigado past La Equidad

It finished 2‑0, and it was Cesar Rubio’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Envigado.

Player ratings22 Sep 2031

A masterclass from Cesar Rubio

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings22 Sep 2031

Carlos Torres beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout22 Sep 2031

When it matters, Felipe Parra plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout22 Sep 2031

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Leonardo Muriel kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout22 Sep 2031

Somebody else is better right now than Arneth González

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

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The Envigado Herald

7 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings7 Jul 2031

Cesar Rubio runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market7 Jul 2031

Cesar Rubio hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Envigado can pretend not to have heard.

Match5 Jul 2031

5 matches without a win for Envigado

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Envigado are no longer polite ones.

Market7 Jul 2031

Envigado say no — this time

The offer from Barranquilla for José Luís Sanabria was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad7 Jul 2031

A move Roberto Lezcano would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Roberto Lezcano is living that version at Envigado, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad7 Jul 2031

William Hurtado stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” William Hurtado and Envigado agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad7 Jul 2031

Tempers go at Envigado

Cesar Rubio 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.

Transfer targets7 Jul 2031

Envigado rebuffed over Cristian Iguarán

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Union Magdalena have kept their man, and Envigado go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Jul 2031

Words at Envigado training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yeferson Rodallega 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.

In brief