The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Cristhián Rivas says Estudiantes de Merida went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Estudiantes de Merida
Cristhián Rivas 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Luis Caicedo 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
When it matters, Jesús Hernández plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Cristhián Rivas question follows Estudiantes de Merida around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Cristhián Rivas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A door opens for Bendrix Parra
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 Héctor Acosta knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Bendrix Parra finally belongs at Estudiantes de Merida
- Loan watch Pietro Flores has made Beroe’s shirt his own
- Squad David Ramirez is fit again