The Fortaleza CEIF Herald
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Carlos Carranza keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fortaleza CEIF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market2 Aug 2027
RAAL La Louviere watching Franco Pulicastro
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fortaleza CEIF have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Fortaleza CEIF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrés Arroyo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jhon Balanta slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jhon Balanta is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Williams Barlasina has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fortaleza CEIF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A promotion for David Ramírez Pisciotti
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. David Ramírez Pisciotti has moved up it.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Juan Sebastián Arias
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Sebastián Arias, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jader Martínez wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Fortaleza CEIF will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market2 Aug 2027
The Andrés Amaya talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Fortaleza CEIF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Jader Martínez placed on the list
- Market Window shut, Jerónimo Barrera still here
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Franco Pulicastro