The Puebla Chronicle
The terraces16 Sep 2030
Supporters organise against the Puebla board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match14 Sep 2030
The wait goes on for Puebla
9 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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Jorge Hernández keeps Puebla 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.
Market16 Sep 2030
Cesar Sanchez asks to leave Puebla
“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.
Market16 Sep 2030
Only the photograph left for Leonardo Jiménez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Leonardo Jiménez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Puebla the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Sep 2030
A falling-out at Puebla
Santiago Simón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Words at Puebla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Velasco is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match14 Sep 2030
Leon take the points off Puebla
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Puebla are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Omar Mireles
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Alonso Ramírez