The Zamora Gazette
Market3 Jan 2028
Cristian Díaz puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zamora, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Erickson Gallardo is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Zamora will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Zamora count the cost of losing Rufat Guseynov
75 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Zamora
Junior Cedeño 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Brayan Rodríguez
“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.
Market3 Jan 2028
The Richard Celis story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Richard Celis signs something — a contract at Zamora or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Ogar Sebastine joins Zamora on a free
- Market The window shut and Álbaro Polo is still in the building