The Deportivo Pereira Herald
Squad9 Aug 2038
Jared Rodríguez damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
Rodriguinho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
Rodrigo Monserrat, 37, rolls back the years — 8.28
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.28 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match7 Aug 2038
5 matches without a win for Deportivo Pereira
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Deportivo Pereira are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Tomás Viera in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportivo Pereira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Rodriguinho 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.
Match7 Aug 2038
Rodrigo Monserrat’s goal not enough for Deportivo Pereira
Rodrigo Monserrat scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Independiente Medellin, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Yan Carlos Vega gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings9 Aug 2038
A day to forget for Edson González
Marked 5.79, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Market The Diego Rodríguez talk will not go away
- Market The shop window has Brandon Ríos in it