The Zamora Gazette
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Erickson Gallardo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
César Urpín: 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.” Zamora have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Zamora
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Zamora training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anthonys Matos 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Zamora
Óscar Cabezas 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Zamora promote Junior Herrera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Junior Herrera 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Zamora against Portuguesa
0‑1 to Portuguesa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Jan 2027
8 new faces, and Zamora are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Salomon Cordova faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salomon Cordova after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Beycker Velásquez
- The dugout Néstor Jiménez dropped after a run of poor form
- Looking ahead A reunion for Erickson Gallardo