David Hernandez

Central Defender - Fortaleza CEIF U18
17 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for David Hernandez

345 Edition

The Fortaleza CEIF Herald

7 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Enmanuel Arrechea 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 Fortaleza CEIF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Fortaleza CEIF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Oliveri 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.

Boardroom

118% of the income goes out in wages at Fortaleza CEIF

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luis Yanes

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

Squad

David Hernandez out for 30 days

The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for David Hernandez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Matías Giménez Rojas slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Matías Giménez Rojas is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Andrés Amaya

A mark of 7.75, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Fortaleza CEIF and Juan Pablo Freytes are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Match

Honours even between Fortaleza CEIF and Deportes Tolima

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

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The Fortaleza CEIF Herald

17 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tyrese Shade

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Miguel Marulanda

Fortaleza CEIF asked and Envigado said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Tempers go at Fortaleza CEIF

Enmanuel Arrechea 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.

Squad

Andrés Amaya 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.

Squad

Fortaleza CEIF lose David Hernandez

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Fortaleza CEIF bring in an old head

Víctor Villasanti is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

The dugout

Daniel Quintero 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.

Market

Andrés Amaya linked with a move away

The name of Andrés Amaya keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Fortaleza CEIF say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Still no ink between Fortaleza CEIF and Víctor Villasanti

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fortaleza CEIF, another week without a signature from Víctor Villasanti.

In brief