Hector Ramirez

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
5 Feb 2035
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Marked for Hector Ramirez

360 Edition

The Tijuana Post

20 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Hector Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Luis Vega says Tijuana went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Only the photograph left for Martín Bonilla

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martín Bonilla will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tijuana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Tijuana

Mourad 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

Words at Tijuana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Zapata 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.

Market

The José Castro story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until José Castro signs something — a contract at Tijuana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
359 Edition

The Tijuana Post

13 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Hector Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Daniel Ávila asks to leave Tijuana

“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

Only the photograph left for Pablo Ortíz

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pablo Ortíz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tijuana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Aldahir Pérez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aldahir Pérez commits to Tijuana for another 4 years.

Squad

Mourad 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 Tijuana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Aldahir Pérez 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

358 Edition

The Tijuana Post

6 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jackson Porozo breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Hector Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 49 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

David Osuna has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tijuana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Tijuana

Mourad 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

Words at Tijuana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aldahir Pérez 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.

Market

Chiapas are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Tijuana will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief