The Cortulua Post
Squad25 Jan 2027
The knee: James Lemos out for 23 days
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cortulua lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Jan 2027
16 days out for Nicolas Ramirez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cortulua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Kevin Martinez agrees terms with Black Aces
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Cortulua people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Both of them Kevin Romero's — 9.00
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market25 Jan 2027
Gabriel Zapata 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 Cortulua can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Estrela da Amadora come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cortulua did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Léiner Escalante beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Cortulua
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Cortulua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Torres 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
- Match Kevin Romero the difference as Cortulua beat Jaguares
- The terraces Cortulua supporters have found a favourite in Kevin Giraldo
- Match At last: Cortulua win one