The Zamora Gazette
Squad16 Apr 2029
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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
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.
Match14 Apr 2029
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 ratings16 Apr 2029
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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
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
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Gustavo Lozano
- Player ratings Heiderber Ramírez ran the game
- The terraces The press have found their man in Erickson Gallardo