Cesar Gallardo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Chiapas U20
24 Feb 2029
Saturday
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The Chiapas Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Chiapas has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cesar Gallardo

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

Match

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

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

Player ratings

Brian Figueroa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Nicolás Fonseca 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 Chiapas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Chiapas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Núñez 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.

Squad

Serkan Göksu 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Nicolás Fonseca

7.59, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Chiapas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match

Point won or two lost for Chiapas?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Pachuca? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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The Chiapas Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francisco Meza

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

Market

José Saldivar puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chiapas, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Brian Figueroa arrives at Chiapas in a $5.4M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Chiapas have paid $5.4M for Brian Figueroa, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

Luis Genaro Castillo says Chiapas 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

Tempers go at Chiapas

Jean 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.

Market

Morelia expected to open talks for Diego Abella

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Chiapas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief