The Angostura Chronicle
Squad29 Nov 2027
Diego Arismendi damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 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.
Market29 Nov 2027
Carlos Roca 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 The request is on a desk at Angostura, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
José Rondón frozen out at Angostura
This is not rotation. José Rondón has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Angostura is pretending otherwise.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Tomás Muia 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 Angostura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Wuilker Medina 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
Alexis Torrez knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexis Torrez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Aldry Contreras in it
- Market The Ángel Peinado question follows Angostura around
- Squad Alejandro Castillo back in training