The Zulia Chronicle
Market20 Dec 2027
Victor Soteldo 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Cristian Cordova keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zulia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Guillermo Guzmán 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Juan Murillo 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
Llaneros are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Zulia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad20 Dec 2027
When it matters, Cristian Rincon plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market Alejandro Gonzalez leaves for nothing
- Market Darwin Herrera leaves for nothing