Bryan Gamboa

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Chiapas
10 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bryan Gamboa

59 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Brandon Rosas out for 59 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chiapas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

6 saves: Rodrigo Lugo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Tempers go at Chiapas

Rodrigo Lugo 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Chiapas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaime Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Chiapas to Luis Gutiérrez

The clock did what Queretaro would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

The terraces

Chiapas supporters have found a favourite in Ángel Rico

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ángel Rico has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Pachuca snatch it back from Chiapas

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings

Ángel Rico was the difference for Chiapas

Marked 7.81. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

The cruellest goal, and it is Bryan Gamboa's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Chiapas will not try tonight.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for Chiapas

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Chiapas are no longer polite ones.

Match

Chiapas sink to position 17

9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Diego Abella 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 Chiapas can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Miguel Velázquez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chiapas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Bryan Gamboa arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bryan Gamboa has, at Chiapas, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Eyes on Diego Abella again

The phone has started ringing about Diego Abella again, and this time the name on the line is Guadalajara. Chiapas are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Chiapas

Rodrigo Lugo 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.

Squad

Jaime Gómez 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Edison Gruezo

Chiapas asked and Queretaro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief