Alex Rojas

Left Back - Cesar Vallejo
7 Mar 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Alex Rojas

181 Edition

The Cesar Vallejo Sentinel

14 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Italo Regalado 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 Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Cesar Vallejo dugout

13 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Ayqqe

“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.

In brief

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158 Edition

The Cesar Vallejo Sentinel

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Cesar Vallejo

Position 12 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Cesar Vallejo boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Cesar Vallejo put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Tempers go at Cesar Vallejo

Italo Regalado 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

No hiding place for Nicolás Ortiz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Ortiz, and the manager let it.

Squad

Pedro Requena loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Pedro Requena. Cesar Vallejo will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad

Italo Regalado knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Italo Regalado trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Boardroom

Cesar Vallejo pull $1.3M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

Joseph de la Cruz leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Joseph de la Cruz leaves Cesar Vallejo the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

151 Edition

The Cesar Vallejo Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for Cesar Vallejo

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Cesar Vallejo are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Alejo González says Cesar Vallejo went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Jhamir D'Arrigo 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 Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Juan Aurich expected to open talks for Jhamir D'Arrigo

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cesar Vallejo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Jhamir D'Arrigo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cesar Vallejo against UTC

0‑2 to UTC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Pedro Requena

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Requena, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Johan Madrid turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Cesar Vallejo deserved better, and so did he.

Squad

Alex Rojas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Rojas and Cesar Vallejo agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief