The Zamora Gazette
Squad27 Jan 2042
Juan Aguilar breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Jan 2042
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tobías Rodríguez
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zamora lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Jan 2042
The wait goes on for Zamora
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom27 Jan 2042
Zamora tie Roberto Cordova down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad27 Jan 2042
Stiven Valencia 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 Zamora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom27 Jan 2042
Graduation day at Zamora
8 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.
Match25 Jan 2042
Zamora make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market27 Jan 2042
Zamora promote Oscar Rondon from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oscar Rondon 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.
Market27 Jan 2042
One of our own: Carlos Martinez joins the Zamora first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Daniel Herrera steps up from the Zamora academy
- Market One of our own: Sergio Osorio joins the Zamora first team
- Squad Daniel Rincon out for 30 days