The Patriotas Chronicle
Squad8 Jun 2037
A fracture rules Manuel Vargas out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Patriotas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match6 Jun 2037
No end in sight to Patriotas's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Patriotas has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings8 Jun 2037
A brace, and Jeycob Zabaleta takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jeycob Zabaleta provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Tempers go at Patriotas
Juan José Hurtado 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.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Words at Patriotas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Álvarez 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.
Squad8 Jun 2037
The manager makes an example of Nicolò Evangelisti
“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.
Match6 Jun 2037
Patriotas and Fortaleza CEIF take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings8 Jun 2037
Nobody could get near Kevin Álvarez
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market8 Jun 2037
Still no signature from Carlos Copete
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Patriotas could get for him.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Patriotas and Brian Cardona
- Market Patriotas put Andrés Macea up for sale
- Market Luis Cardona leaves for nothing