The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
The knee: Jesús Hernández out for 38 days
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Estudiantes de Merida lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
César Magallan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Estudiantes de Merida
Cristhián Rivas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Estudiantes de Merida promote Cristian Casseres from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Casseres 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Estudiantes de Merida promote Fernando Rincon from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Rincon 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Fernando Ferraresi joins the Estudiantes de Merida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Ferraresi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Estudiantes de Merida promote Andres Savarino from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andres Savarino 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gelmín Rivas needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Estudiantes de Merida know which stage they are at.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Estudiantes de Merida are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Estudiantes de Merida pick somebody else ahead of Eddie Roberts
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Match Estudiantes de Merida draw a blank against Deportivo Tachira