David Murillo

Striker - Zulia U20
25 May 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for David Murillo

236 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

3 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Cristian Savarino: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zulia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Moisés Gallo

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

5 matches without a win for Zulia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Zulia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Juan Tineo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Tineo commits to Zulia for another 2 years.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Zulia

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Zulia

Renzo Zambrano 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.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Zulia dugout

14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Zulia against Estudiantes de Merida

0‑1 to Estudiantes de Merida, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

David Murillo out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for David Murillo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Market No place for Pablo Martínez in the plan
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Renzo Zambrano
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230 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

23 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Esteban Paredes agrees terms with Llaneros

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Zulia people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Moisés Gallo 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 Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Zulia rebuffed over Denilson Ojeda

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Venezuela have kept their man, and Zulia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Zulia lose David Murillo

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

Squad

Words at Zulia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Suárez 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.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Rubén Rivas

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Zulia were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Osnel García is in the works

Zulia have made the call to Deportivo Tachira. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Rubén Rivas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rubén Rivas and Zulia agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pablo Martínez

“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