Jon Cabrera

Left Midfielder - Ventspils
1 May 2030
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141 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Apr 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Igors Zjuzins

100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A fracture rules Robert Darbinyan out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ventspils will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match4 Apr 2029

Jon Cabrera sends Ventspils through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jon Cabrera obliged against Metta/LU. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ventspils.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

A debut Jon Cabrera will not forget — 6.85

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 6.85 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Davis Zjuzins is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Davis Zjuzins: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match9 Apr 2029

Ventspils refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 6 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Luca Ganduglia says Ventspils went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market9 Apr 2029

Hakeem Otuyiga hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ventspils can pretend not to have heard.

Match7 Apr 2029

Ventspils get the job done against Daugavpils

A 2‑1 win over Daugavpils, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

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101 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Jul 2028

Raivis Cauna damages knee ligaments — 72 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

A fracture rules Yasir Al-Shammari out for 59 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ventspils will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market3 Jul 2028

Hakeem Otuyiga puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ventspils, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market3 Jul 2028

Janis Stolcers is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ventspils is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Home is on Hakeem Otuyiga's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ventspils are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Igors Zjuzins 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Ventspils beat the market to Vladimirs Oss from Spartaks

Spartaks will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Vladimirs Oss has pre-agreed a move to Ventspils, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market3 Jul 2028

Jelgava are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Ventspils will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market3 Jul 2028

A long bet from Ventspils on Jon Cabrera

He is 18, and nobody at Ventspils 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

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