José Zuloaga

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
27 Sep 2028
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Marked for José Zuloaga

87 Edition

The Melgar Herald

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad27 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Melgar

Horacio Orzán 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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Gregorio Rodríguez 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.

Match25 Mar 2028

Deportivo Municipal take the points off Melgar

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad27 Mar 2028

The manager makes an example of Leonel González

“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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Melgar pick somebody else ahead of Cristian Bordacahar

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The terraces27 Mar 2028

The spotlight tightens on Jhamir D'Arrigo

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Jhamir D'Arrigo could not find anything

5.54. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Off the pace: Jefferson Cáceres

A mark of 5.76 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The Melgar Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match4 Mar 2028

Piero Cari settles it late for Melgar

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Piero Cari decided nobody was going anywhere. Sport Huancayo had no time left to answer.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Juan Escobar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Escobar commits to Melgar for another 2 years.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Melgar

Axel Batista 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words at Melgar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gregorio Rodríguez 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

Melgar find a way past Sport Huancayo

Sport Huancayo made Melgar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces6 Mar 2028

Melgar supporters have found a favourite in Piero Cari

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Piero Cari 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.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Alejandro Ramos was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.66. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad6 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Germán Niz

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

In brief

83 Edition

The Melgar Herald

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Feb 2028

Axel Batista 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 Melgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Gregorio Rodríguez 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.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

A masterclass from Gregorio Rodríguez

Marked 8.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad28 Feb 2028

The manager makes an example of Nicolás Quagliata

“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.

Market28 Feb 2028

Kashiwa Reysol are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Melgar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad28 Feb 2028

José Zuloaga signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” José Zuloaga and Melgar agree another 4 years.

In brief