The Deportivo Municipal Post
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Guillermo Vernal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Deportivo Municipal
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Deportivo Municipal
Paolo Méndez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Wilder Gallese steps up from the Deportivo Municipal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wilder Gallese 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Gabriel Yotun joins the Deportivo Municipal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Yotun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Alexander Advincula joins the Deportivo Municipal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Advincula is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Raul Abram steps up from the Deportivo Municipal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raul Abram 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Deportivo Municipal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sabino 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Deportivo Municipal
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Deportivo Municipal?
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Edson Espinoza
- Boardroom Deportivo Municipal spend it where nobody looks