The Ceuta Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
Capa damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Adrián Suárez keeps Ceuta in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market23 Aug 2027
Álex Petxarromán asks to leave Ceuta
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alex Freeman 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 Ceuta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ezra Carrington is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ceuta
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ceuta promote David Suárez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Suárez 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Francisco Núñez steps up from the Ceuta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francisco Núñez 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Gabriel Vera joins the Ceuta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Vera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Ceuta find a way past Albacete
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Ceuta
- Player ratings Cédric Teguia runs at them all day