The Zulia Chronicle
Market25 Jan 2027
Sanfrecce Hiroshima come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zulia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Luis Torres 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 Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Zulia
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
David Gonzalez steps up from the Zulia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Gonzalez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market25 Jan 2027
Zulia promote Luis Ferraresi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Ferraresi 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Juan Rondon steps up from the Zulia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Rondon has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Zulia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredy Guerrero 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Zulia pick somebody else ahead of Miguel Herrera
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
No investment in the facilities at Zulia
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Salomon Ferraresi
- Match Point won or two lost for Zulia?
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Angelo Rovegno