The Zamora Gazette
Squad16 Jul 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andres Casseres
26 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.
Squad16 Jul 2040
Tempers go at Zamora
Stiven Valencia 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.
Market16 Jul 2040
Deportivo Tachira are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Zamora will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad16 Jul 2040
When it matters, Stiven Valencia plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match14 Jul 2040
Zamora and Estudiantes de Merida take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad16 Jul 2040
No hiding place for Thomas Ilsanker
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Ilsanker, and the manager let it.
Market16 Jul 2040
The Isaí Valladares story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Isaí Valladares signs something — a contract at Zamora or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings16 Jul 2040
Lautaro Napolitano runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Jul 2040
Mateo Fofre changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Zamora had a different afternoon.
In brief
- Market Zamora pick up Facundo Alvarez for nothing
- Market The shop window has Eduardo Fuentes in it
- Boardroom Zamora keep producing them