Daniel Roca

Central Defender - Zulia
7 Aug 2027
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23 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Jan 2027

The knee: Emir Basabe out for 49 days

49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zulia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Daniel Bolívar out for 33 days

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

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Tomás Jerez turns down Zulia

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: San Miguel keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Zulia

Carlos Suárez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Carlos Ramírez 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.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Zulia rebuffed over Andrés Dávila

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Independiente Medellin have kept their man, and Zulia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Nov 2026

The knee: Emir Basabe out for 86 days

86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zulia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad30 Nov 2026

72 days out for Daniel Bolívar after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Zulia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Zulia

Carlos Suárez 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Emir Basabe

114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zulia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market2 Nov 2026

Jesús Gamarra 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 Zulia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Zulia

Carlos Suárez 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 Nov 2026

Carlos Ramírez 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Rosmel Villaneuva has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Zulia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Emir Basabe 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 Zulia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

13 Edition

The Zulia Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Emir Basabe

121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zulia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Emir Basabe: 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Carlos Suárez 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 Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Zulia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Junior Vargas 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Rosmel Villaneuva signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rosmel Villaneuva commits to Zulia for another 2 years.

Market26 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Zulia

Rosmel Villaneuva arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market26 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Zulia

Daniel Roca arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager makes Moisés Gallo a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Zulia. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief