The Zulia Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Rafael Cordova out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zulia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Cordova
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zulia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a win for Zulia
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Zulia are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
Junior Rincon asks to leave Zulia
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Gabriel Cordova has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zulia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jose Sinisterra 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Gabriel Arango’s goal not enough for Zulia
Gabriel Arango scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Deportivo La Guaira, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market8 Feb 2027
Cristian Ramirez told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Cristian Ramirez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zulia.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Dimas 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Jose Sinisterra changes it off the bench
- Player ratings Nobody could get near David Gonzalez
- Market Zulia shop where it costs nothing