Juan Cordova

Goalkeeper - Llaneros
22 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Juan Cordova

16 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Noah Blanco: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Llaneros have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Llaneros

Richard Moreno 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.

Squad

Andres Herrera 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Llaneros

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Andres Herrera has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Llaneros will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Juan Cordova is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Llaneros has been clear about where Juan Cordova stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

No place for Fabrizio Fazzolari in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Llaneros are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

The Noah Blanco talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Llaneros know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Llaneros pick up Fabrizio Fazzolari for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Fabrizio Fazzolari arrives at Llaneros with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Juan Cordova asks to leave Llaneros

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Cristian Ramirez is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A falling-out at Llaneros

Victor Rincon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Machis 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

Edgar Mendoza is slowing down

At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

The dugout

When it matters, Andres Herrera 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.

Market

The Noah Blanco talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Llaneros know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

The shop window has Victor Otero in it

Llaneros have let the market know Victor Otero can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Miguel Herrera 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 Miguel Herrera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief