The Puebla Chronicle
Squad30 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emanuel Gularte
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Puebla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Jul 2035
A fracture rules Kevin Velasco out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Puebla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Jul 2035
Puebla turn down Chiapas for William Barboza
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings30 Jul 2035
Age has not caught Raul Castillo yet — 8.16
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.16 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Puebla
Alejandro Organista 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.
Match28 Jul 2035
Raul Castillo sends Puebla past Cruz Azul
It finished 2‑1, and it was Raul Castillo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Puebla.
Squad30 Jul 2035
No hiding place for Eduardo Mustre
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduardo Mustre, and the manager let it.
Market30 Jul 2035
The José Pachuca story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until José Pachuca signs something — a contract at Puebla or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings30 Jul 2035
Eduardo Mustre runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Hirving Gallardo leaves for nothing
- Market Manuel Martin leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Puebla dressing room answers