The Real Frontera Courier
Market12 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Juan Villasmil
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Villasmil will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Real Frontera the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Real Frontera count the cost of losing Esteban Martínez
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match10 Jul 2027
At last: Real Frontera win one
8 matches without a win, and then this, against Portuguesa. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Roberto Sarli is a medical away from Real Frontera
The deal with UCV is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Real Frontera
Jhonatan Restrepo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Juan José Heinze 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Anzoátegui tell Real Frontera: Edanyilber Navas is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces12 Jul 2027
The crowd has taken to Jhonatan Restrepo
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Jul 2027
Real Frontera find a way past Portuguesa
Portuguesa made Real Frontera work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fernando Herrera joins the Real Frontera first team
- Market Gabriel Savarino steps up from the Real Frontera academy
- Market Real Frontera promote Daniel Machis from within