The Jaguares Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Santiago Cubides out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jaguares will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Age has not caught Wilfrido De La Rosa yet — 7.96
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Jaguares
Wilfrido De La Rosa 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Yairo Moreno 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Jaguares
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
Jaguares promote Sergio Quintero from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Quintero 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
Jaguares promote Jorge Duque from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Duque 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
Victor Romero steps up from the Jaguares academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Victor Romero 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
One of our own: Cristian Montero joins the Jaguares first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Montero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Boardroom Jaguares are making the ground bigger
- Squad No hiding place for Didier Bueno
- Match Jaguares and Cortulua take a point apiece