Daniel Rincon

Right Forward - Zamora
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Rincon

858 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

5 Jan 2043
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The season belongs to Gustavo Lozano

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Zamora have had the benefit of it.

Market

Luis Herrera hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zamora can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Luis Herrera has agreed to leave Zamora for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Isaí Valladares signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isaí Valladares commits to Zamora for another 2 years.

Squad

Isaí Valladares 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.

Squad

Words at Zamora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Fuica 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.

In brief

Back issues
857 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

29 Dec 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Zamora to lose Pedro Rodríguez for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Pedro Rodríguez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Tempers go at Zamora

Gustavo Lozano 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.

Squad

Nicolás Fuica 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.

Market

Aragua join the queue for Daniel Rincon

Add another name to the list: Aragua have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniel Rincon. The answer from Zamora has not changed — yet.

Squad

No hiding place for Chukwueze Nwakali

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chukwueze Nwakali, and the manager let it.

Squad

6 new faces, and Zamora are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

801 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

2 Dec 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Thomas Ilsanker out for 41 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zamora will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Ander Izarra puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zamora, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Diego Ulloa has been here 10 seasons

421 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Zamora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samba Diallo 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.

Market

Eyes on Juan Osorio again

The phone has started ringing about Juan Osorio again, and this time the name on the line is Trujillanos. Zamora are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief