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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Jesús Camargo 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Levski come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zamora did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Antony Trujillo
“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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zamora know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market30 Aug 2027
Zamora have made Diego Herrera available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Market23 Aug 2027
Diego 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zamora have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Carlos Lujano, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Crisis
Market12 Jul 2027
“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.
Match10 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Zamora's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zamora has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 Jul 2027
José Flores has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zamora they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match10 Jul 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Herrera
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jorge Graterol knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Match29 May 2027
13 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 May 2027
A one-man rearguard from Moisés Gallo
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad31 May 2027
Arlés Flores gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The terraces31 May 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Match29 May 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Estudiantes de Caracas will be the happier side with the point.
Market31 May 2027
The Moisés Gallo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zamora know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match8 May 2027
10 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Richard Celis
“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.
Match8 May 2027
A 2-2 draw with Portuguesa leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Match1 May 2027
9 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of José Sequera
“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.
Match1 May 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Aragua will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Match3 Apr 2027
10 unbeaten for Zamora
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Zamora did not have in the autumn.
Match3 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Zamora's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zamora has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Moisés Gallo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match3 Apr 2027
A 1-1 draw with Estudiantes de Merida leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Zamora will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Market5 Apr 2027
The name of Moisés Gallo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zamora say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match6 Feb 2027
10 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Antony Trujillo
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 1-1 draw with Mineros de Guayana leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Match23 Jan 2027
8 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Market25 Jan 2027
The shirt still fits. Daniel Martinez is back at Zamora, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Jan 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market25 Jan 2027
The shirt still fits. Richard Moreno is back at Zamora, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Jan 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ronald Acuña gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match23 Jan 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad25 Jan 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Zamora have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Carlos Lujano knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zamora, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 88% of everything Zamora earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Richard Celis knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zamora, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match11 Dec 2026
7 matches without a win for Zamora
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Zamora are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Néstor Jiménez has come up in conversations Zamora were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Richard Celis
“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.
Match11 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Zamora against Racing
0-1 to Racing, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Zamora pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market14 Dec 2026
Zamora bring in an old head
Marlon Fernández is 40 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for José Barragán, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Richard Celis
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match6 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Zamora's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zamora has to find a result from somewhere.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match18 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Zamora
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ronald Acuña gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Eric Barrios knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zamora, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
Moisés Gallo decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Zamora bow out of the cup
Estudiantes de Merida go through and Zamora go home, 1-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arlés Flores and Zamora agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Gabriel Benítez
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Match1 Aug 2026
Zamora and Zulia 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.