Junior Rincon

Striker - Zulia
2 Mar 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Junior Rincon

28 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
23 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alejandro Ramirez 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 Zulia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Zulia

Jose Sinisterra 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

David Gonzalez 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

22 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Oscar Otero breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Salomon 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.

Squad

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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Fernando Osorio 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Oscar Otero out for 26 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.

Market

Zulia turn down Godoy Cruz for Jose Casseres

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Zulia lose Luis Torres

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

No place for Junior Rincon in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Junior Rincon has his answer from Zulia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

Gabriel Arango asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief