Luis Blanco

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Zaragoza U18
23 Jan 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Luis Blanco

37 Edition

The Zaragoza Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Pau Sans’s exile

22 goals in 27 games at Cracovia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Zaragoza updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Rubén Díez says Zaragoza went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Pablo Insua 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 Zaragoza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nico Serrano was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Market

Zaragoza promote Sergio Hernández from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Hernández 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.

Market

Zaragoza promote Luis Blanco from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Blanco 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.

Match

Zaragoza come up short against Córdoba

Córdoba left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Leonel Miranda

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Miranda, and the manager let it.

Squad

Aleksandar Radovanović 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.

In brief