The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alejandro Castillo breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Oct 2026
Jesús Lobo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Estudiantes de Merida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Cristhián Rivas 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Gelmín Rivas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Estudiantes de Merida 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Estudiantes de Merida
Lautaro Llarín 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Jean Frank Gutiérrez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jean Frank Gutiérrez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Cristopher Rodríguez has been promised minutes
- Squad Héctor Acosta is fit again