The Alianza Petrolera Herald
Squad29 Dec 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darío Rodríguez
124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Alianza Petrolera lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom29 Dec 2031
Pressure builds in the Alianza Petrolera boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Tempers go at Alianza Petrolera
Darío Rodríguez 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.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Words at Alianza Petrolera training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óscar Alcócer 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.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Darío Rodríguez gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom29 Dec 2031
109% of the income goes out in wages at Alianza Petrolera
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Felipe Ávila in it
- Market Jorge Duque leaves for nothing