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Edition
The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tito Rojas damages knee ligaments — 114 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Cristhián Rivas 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Luis Caicedo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market Estudiantes de Merida promote Daniel Herrera from within
- The dugout When it matters, Cristian Caicedo plays
- Squad Word from the training ground: Manuel Páez
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Juan Ramírez