The Zamora Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Erickson Gallardo 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 Zamora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carlos Lujano 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Freddy Espinal the difference as Zamora beat Deportivo Lara
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Freddy Espinal. 1‑0 against Deportivo Lara, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One of those days for Freddy Espinal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at Zamora has picked up the phone to Erickson Gallardo
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Junior Cedeño's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Zamora on Juan Savarino
He is 16, and nobody at Zamora signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Zamora on Daniel Rincon
He is 16, and nobody at Zamora signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Zamora on Gabriel Otero
He is 14, and nobody at Zamora signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Player ratings Erickson Gallardo runs at them all day
- Squad Zamora pick somebody else ahead of Néstor Jiménez
- Player ratings An afternoon Junior Cedeño will want back