Luis Murillo

Goalkeeper - Zulia U20
4 Apr 2028
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Marked for Luis Murillo

87 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match25 Mar 2028

Still nobody has beaten Zulia

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match25 Mar 2028

The wait goes on for Zulia

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Nothing got past Francisco Ramirez

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Zulia

Nicolas Valencia 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.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Richard Ferraresi 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.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Juan Perdomo shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Fabián Pacheco stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabián Pacheco and Zulia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Zulia count the cost of losing Luis Murillo

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings27 Mar 2028

Oscar Murillo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
62 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market4 Oct 2027

Rafael Cordova 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.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Zulia

Leandro Mamut 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.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Zulia count the cost of losing Luis Murillo

22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

58 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Sep 2027

Álvaro Busso is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Álvaro Busso: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match1 Sep 2027

Nicolas Valencia sends Zulia through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nicolas Valencia obliged against Caracas. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Zulia.

Market6 Sep 2027

Rafael Cordova puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zulia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Zulia

Leandro Mamut 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.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Leandro Mamut

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

One of those days for Nicolas Valencia

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad6 Sep 2027

The manager makes an example of Álvaro Busso

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Luis Murillo out for 53 days

The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Luis Murillo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

$4.1M on the table at Zulia

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

In brief