Luis Soteldo

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24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Luis Soteldo

24 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Vegalta Sendai come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zulia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Alejandro Murillo 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 The request is on a desk at Zulia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Zulia

Jair Andara 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.

Squad

Words at Zulia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Augusto Mosquera 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.

Squad

Luis Soteldo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Soteldo commits to Zulia for another 4 years.

Squad

Gabriel Rondon knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabriel Rondon trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

José Graterol 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 Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Zulia beat the market to Hugo Sánchez from Deportivo Lara

Deportivo Lara will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Hugo Sánchez has pre-agreed a move to Zulia, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Words at Zulia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Cordova 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.

In brief