Marked for Jerónimo Barrera
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Juan Montero out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fortaleza CEIF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andrés Salazar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sebastián Herrera 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leonardo Pico 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Fortaleza CEIF can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Uribe is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Mejia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Johan Barrios 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sebastián Navarro arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.