Miguel Santamaria

Defensive Midfielder - Cesar Vallejo U18
30 Dec 2029
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Process

Marked for Miguel Santamaria

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The Cesar Vallejo Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Cesar Vallejo run out of patience with Horacio Reyna

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Horacio Reyna clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Squad

Miguel Trauco damages knee ligaments — 104 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 104 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

Jorge Cabezudo stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Boardroom

Roberto Reyna takes charge at Cesar Vallejo

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

The dugout

Fabrisio Mesías keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cesar Vallejo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

No end in sight to Cesar Vallejo's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cesar Vallejo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Jhonny Vidales 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 Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Cesar Vallejo

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Cesar Vallejo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josué Estrada 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.

In brief