The Fortaleza CEIF Herald
Squad27 Jan 2031
Santiago Chala damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Match25 Jan 2031
Fortaleza CEIF taken apart
0‑3 to Deportivo Pereira, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The dugout27 Jan 2031
Johan Restrepo: 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.” Fortaleza CEIF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Jan 2031
A falling-out at Fortaleza CEIF
Enmanuel Arrechea and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad27 Jan 2031
A move Santiago Coronel would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Santiago Coronel is living that version at Fortaleza CEIF, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
9 academy players handed senior numbers at Fortaleza CEIF
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad27 Jan 2031
Words at Fortaleza CEIF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joan Cajares 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.
Match25 Jan 2031
The run is over for Fortaleza CEIF
6 matches without defeat, and then Deportivo Pereira. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Market27 Jan 2031
Fortaleza CEIF promote Andres Cardona from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andres Cardona 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
- Market Leonardo Ramirez steps up from the Fortaleza CEIF academy
- Market Fortaleza CEIF promote Gustavo Muriel from within
- Market Fortaleza CEIF promote Luis Giraldo from within