Marked for Facundo Tealde
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergio Gonzalez commits to Zulia for another 2 years.
Squad4 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Dec 2028
Add another name to the list: Carabobo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about César Zárate. The answer from Zulia has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Alan Vázquez
“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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Facundo Tealde is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zulia has been clear about where Facundo Tealde stands, which is more than many ever get.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Zulia pull $4.6M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Henier Rodríguez has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Zulia that is a harder question to answer.
Market4 Dec 2028
The clock does César Zárate’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Zulia could ask drops and the wages César Zárate can ask rise.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market27 Nov 2028
Only the photograph left for César Zárate
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. César Zárate will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zulia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Tempers go at Zulia
Henier Rodríguez 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Tealde, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom20 Nov 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Zulia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad20 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Luis Moreno, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Oct 2028
David Herrera: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zulia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market16 Oct 2028
“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 Zulia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Zulia
Henier Rodríguez 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Oct 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zulia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Zulia
Henier Rodríguez 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Restrepo, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Sep 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zulia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Tealde commits to Zulia for another 2 years.
Squad4 Sep 2028
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Zulia pull $4.6M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.