Junior Rincon

Goalkeeper - Zulia
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Junior Rincon

3 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Roberto Moreno runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Aug 2026

Zulia out of the cup

Estudiantes de Merida ended it 2‑11. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Andres Savarino keeps Zulia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market17 Aug 2026

Zulia turn down Sagan Tosu for Richard Herrera

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A day Richard Herrera will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Zulia are taken apart by Estudiantes de Merida — and the town wants answers

It finished 2-11. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Victor Machis, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76

A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A chastening introduction for David Martinez — 5.78

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.78 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Junior Rincon 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Richard Rondon

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Aug 2026

David Soteldo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Soteldo and Zulia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Junior Rincon 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.

Match8 Aug 2026

Zulia come up short against Trujillanos

Trujillanos left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Cristian Rincon gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Darwin Murillo 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

1 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A debut Rafael Arango will not forget — 7.94

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.94 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match1 Aug 2026

Rafael Arango wins it after the whistle should have gone

97 minutes played. Rafael Arango found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Zamora went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zulia

Junior Rincon 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Zulia find a way past Zamora

Zamora made Zulia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Zulia supporters have found a favourite in Rafael Arango

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Rafael Arango has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Carlos Soteldo

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sergio Cordova signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergio Cordova commits to Zulia for another 1 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

David Soteldo 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 David Soteldo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad3 Aug 2026

David Martinez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief