Gabriel Araujo

Goalkeeper - Pumas UNAM U18
27 Mar 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Araujo

175 Edition

The Pumas UNAM Courier

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

52 days out for Efraín Álvarez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pumas UNAM will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Araujo

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pumas UNAM lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Vintage Guillermo Martínez — 8.34

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.34, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Sebastián Córdova wants more than Pumas UNAM are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Pumas UNAM

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at Pumas UNAM

Pablo Lara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Guillermo Martínez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Guillermo Martínez and Pumas UNAM agree another 2 years.

Match

José Juan Macías the difference as Pumas UNAM beat Chiapas

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: José Juan Macías. 3‑1 against Chiapas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Pumas UNAM. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

In brief

Back issues
174 Edition

The Pumas UNAM Courier

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Efraín Álvarez breaks a bone — 60 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Gabriel Araujo damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Player ratings

César Huerta runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Nobody wins at Pumas UNAM

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

A falling-out at Pumas UNAM

Sebastián Córdova and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Adalberto Carrasquilla 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Pumas UNAM do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings

Rodrigo Huescas takes the honours

Marked 7.73 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Pumas UNAM had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

César Huerta has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Pumas UNAM 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.

In brief

173 Edition

The Pumas UNAM Courier

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Efraín Álvarez breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Araujo

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pumas UNAM lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Pumas UNAM are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Ezequiel Ramírez asks to leave Pumas UNAM

“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.

Squad

Pumas UNAM lose Nathan Silva

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan Ignacio Duma

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Ignacio Duma will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pumas UNAM the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Pumas UNAM cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pumas UNAM

Sebastián Córdova and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

César Huerta sends Pumas UNAM past Pachuca

It finished 1‑0, and it was César Huerta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pumas UNAM.

In brief