Hernán Cabrera

Defensive Midfielder - Los Andes
17 Nov 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Hernán Cabrera

290 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

16 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Los Andes board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Reza Khodadad asks to leave Los Andes

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Alan Ríos frozen out at Los Andes

This is not rotation. Alan Ríos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Los Andes is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Alan Ríos 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 Los Andes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Alvarado take the points off Los Andes

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

132% of the income goes out in wages at Los Andes

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luis Peralta

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Los Andes

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Flandria.

In brief

Back issues
288 Edition

The Los Andes Courier

2 Feb 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Reza Khodadad frozen out at Los Andes

This is not rotation. Reza Khodadad has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Los Andes is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Ignacio Casas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Casas and Los Andes agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Los Andes

Alan Ríos 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Los Andes

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Boardroom

The owner puts $58.3K into Los Andes

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Market

One of our own: Chapa joins the Los Andes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Chapa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Los Andes promote Miguel Ángel Godoy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Ángel Godoy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Pocho steps up from the Los Andes academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pocho has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Los Andes promote Hernán Cabrera from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hernán Cabrera has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief