Alejandro Arango

Striker - Zamora U20
24 Oct 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Arango

142 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alejandro Arango damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Squad

Erickson Gallardo 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 Zamora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Stiven Valencia falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Zamora find a way past Zulia

Zulia made Zamora work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Erickson Gallardo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.46. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Juan Carlos Ortíz dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
141 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alejandro Arango

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

Match

No end in sight to Zamora's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zamora has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Zamora

Erickson Gallardo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Heiderber Ramírez

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Sergio Sulbarán falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Zamora

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

In brief