The Dorados Courier
Market31 Mar 2031
Jordan Carrillo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dorados is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom31 Mar 2031
The scrutiny sharpens at Dorados
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Dorados is running low.
Squad31 Mar 2031
Tempers go at Dorados
Jhon Acurio 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.
Squad31 Mar 2031
A row about effort at Dorados
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tayvon Gray was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Mar 2031
Tayvon Gray 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 Tayvon Gray trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead31 Mar 2031
A reunion for Jordan Carrillo
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Guadalajara in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout31 Mar 2031
Irwin Zamudio has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Irwin Zamudio has written the date down.
Boardroom31 Mar 2031
The Dorados production line keeps running
32 graduates out of an academy now rated 7 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
Looking ahead31 Mar 2031
Home comforts ahead for Dorados
Guadalajara, position 10, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jordan Carrillo
- Squad Álvaro Ruiz-Rente finally belongs at Dorados
- Squad Welcome back, Erick Jimenez