Marked for Erick Rodríguez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Erick Rodríguez damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Fenix
Bryan Olivera 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Esteban González 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Erick Rodríguez damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Squad9 Nov 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Fenix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Erick Rodríguez
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fenix lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Fenix training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Silva 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.