The Patriotas Chronicle
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Nike
51 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Javier Zorro asks to leave Patriotas
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Tomas Molina at Patriotas
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tomas Molina is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Kevin Álvarez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Álvarez and Patriotas agree another 4 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Patriotas
Sebastián Moreno 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Patriotas promote David Rodriguez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Rodriguez 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 Wilmar Murillo from within
- Market Camilo Herrera steps up from the Patriotas academy
- The dugout Juan Daniel Espitia gets it from the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Sebastián Moreno