Marked for Jean Paul Angulo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Jean Paul Angulo damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.
Market28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Patriotas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jean Paul Angulo damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A season's verdict on Kevin Álvarez: the best of his age
Patriotas have a 21-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brayan Fernández 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
Words at Patriotas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Esteven Salguero 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Michael Nike story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Michael Nike signs something — a contract at Patriotas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jean Paul Angulo damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alejandro Amaya will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Patriotas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.