The Patriotas Chronicle
Match1 Jul 2028
11 matches without a win for Patriotas
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Patriotas are no longer polite ones.
Market3 Jul 2028
Alejandro Amaya hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Patriotas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Patriotas
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.
Match1 Jul 2028
Patriotas cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Boca Juniors tell Patriotas: Joaquín Piñeyro is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Nothing got past Éwil Murillo
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Patriotas ask about Matías Fuentes
A loan enquiry to Deportivo Pereira: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Patriotas sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Jerónimo Yepes named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jerónimo Yepes is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Squad A step back for Thiago Cattanese at Patriotas
- The dugout Éwil Murillo knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Julian Mina: “We have to be better”