The Alianza Petrolera Herald
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Alianza Petrolera
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Edwin Arias joins the Alianza Petrolera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Edwin Arias is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Jan 2027
Fabian Cardona steps up from the Alianza Petrolera academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fabian Cardona 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
Alianza Petrolera promote Francisco Mejia from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Francisco Mejia 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
Andres Gonzalez steps up from the Alianza Petrolera academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andres 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Alianza Petrolera training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Núñez 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
Too much change too quickly at Alianza Petrolera
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Yadir Meneses has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Petrolera 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Joan Hernández 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 Alianza Petrolera this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Santiago Lambertucci
- Match Point won or two lost for Alianza Petrolera?
- Player ratings The pass was always on for David Hurtado