The Morelia Chronicle
The terraces8 Apr 2030
The mood at Morelia has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market8 Apr 2030
Fernando Valenzuela hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Morelia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Tempers go at Morelia
Álvaro Angulo 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Fernando Miranda 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Guillermo Gallardo named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Guillermo Gallardo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Apr 2030
No hiding place for Kevin Borges
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kevin Borges, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Apr 2030
Rubén Del Campo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Morelia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market8 Apr 2030
The Emi Ochoa talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Morelia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout8 Apr 2030
A door opens for Javier Güemez
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- The dugout Diego López Rivadeneira knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Ari Contreras has settled at Morelia