Marked for Norberto Bedolla
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rodolfo Cota breaks a bone — 105 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Club America may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Carlos Álvarez and Club America agree another 5 years.
Squad16 Nov 2026
José Raúl Zúñiga 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Club America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lima 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Club America game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Chiapas runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Carlos Álvarez is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Alan Cervantes asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Yosh Strimling's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Toluca, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Chiapas
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Chiapas are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Norberto Bedolla is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Pablo López 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Chiapas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Chiapas is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Chiapas dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
25 new faces, and Chiapas are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Rodolfo Cota breaks a bone — 137 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 137 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Club America do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miguel Carreón is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lima was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alexis Gutiérrez 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Chiapas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Club America and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
174 days out for Rodolfo Cota after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Club America will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Club America do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hugo Buyla is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Raphael Veiga. 1‑0 against Morelia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
José Raúl Zúñiga 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Club America game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Chiapas runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market21 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Brian Rodríguez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Club America.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Chiapas had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Atlético Tucumán, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Chiapas
Juan Pablo Chávez 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
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Chiapas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Arana 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Guillermo Salcedo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alejandro Arana
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Diego Abella to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Puebla, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Fernando Alvarez after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 22 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match19 Aug 2026
Chiapas march on in the cup
Veracruz are out and Chiapas go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match19 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Chiapas scored in the 119th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Pedro Villalba, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.14
A mark of 8.14 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Guadalajara; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Universitario keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Juan Miguel 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.