The Deportivo Municipal Post
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Pressure builds in the Deportivo Municipal boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Paolo Lapadula has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Deportivo Municipal can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
Roberto Villamarín frozen out at Deportivo Municipal
This is not rotation. Roberto Villamarín has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Deportivo Municipal is pretending otherwise.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Roberto Villamarín signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roberto Villamarín commits to Deportivo Municipal for another 2 years.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Deportivo Municipal
Facundo Paredes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Stephano Barragán 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.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
When it matters, Jayro Cornejo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
Gianfranco Moreno without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Gianfranco Moreno was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
Market2 Oct 2028
Deportivo Municipal and Oscar Villalobos are talking past each other
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Oscar Villalobos knocks on the manager's door
- Market The shop window has Pedro Zúñiga in it
- Squad Christian Sánchez finally belongs at Deportivo Municipal