The Patriotas Chronicle
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
$110.0K settles it between the clubs for Michael Barragán
Fortaleza CEIF have accepted the money. What Patriotas do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market21 Dec 2026
Alejandro Amaya is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Patriotas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ángel Mora is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Sebastián Moreno for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Patriotas will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Club America tell Patriotas: Fernando Tapia is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Patriotas
Javier Cordoba 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Iván Camacho 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 targets21 Dec 2026
A loan move for Raúl Loaiza is in the works
Patriotas have made the call to Racing Club. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Patriotas try to borrow Ivo Visona
Platense have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Leyvin Balanta knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Jonnier Torres plays
- Market Patriotas bring in Ever Valencia on loan