Gabriel Martin

Right Forward - Tijuana U18
23 Sep 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Martin

104 Edition

The Tijuana Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Luis Ernesto Ruiz out for 58 days

58 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tijuana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Luis Cervantes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tijuana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for Tijuana

4 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.

Market

Rafael Fernández moves on

Pachuca pay $980.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Tijuana

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Match

Vitinho’s goal not enough for Tijuana

Vitinho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Cruz Azul, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

José Antonio Rodríguez 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.

Market

Tijuana promote Gabriel Martin from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabriel Martin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief