The Patriotas Chronicle
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Samuel Ruiz
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Patriotas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Patriotas
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Deyson Copete: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Patriotas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Christian Oliva goes up and wins it — 7.92
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.92 for the rest of it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Patriotas
Kevin Salazar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Patriotas
4 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Patriotas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobías Rubio 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Patriotas rebuffed over Matías Romero
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nueva Chicago have kept their man, and Patriotas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Patriotas promote Alejandro Medina from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alejandro Medina 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.
In brief
- Market Patriotas promote Carlos Valencia from within
- Market One of our own: Fabian Moreno joins the Patriotas first team
- Market Jorge Duque steps up from the Patriotas academy