Marked for Junior Paredes
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Junior Paredes 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kevin González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Greyberth Trompetera and Trujillanos agree another 4 years.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Trujillanos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jesús Lugo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabián Chaverra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad12 Oct 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Trujillanos know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Trujillanos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fabián Pacheco is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jesús Lugo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jhonny González 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Trujillanos
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market28 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Trujillanos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Osnel García has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Osnel García has written the date down.
Market28 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Trujillanos could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trujillanos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market21 Sep 2026
The José Febres story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until José Febres signs something — a contract at Trujillanos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Brayan Morales has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Trujillanos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tabaré Benítez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kevin González 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Brayan Morales
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jhonny González has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tabaré Benítez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Miguel Celis for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Trujillanos will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Osnel García
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Trujillanos
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Trujillanos man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that José Rivas Gamboa was the best thing in any of them.
Market31 Aug 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Junior Paredes signs something — a contract at Trujillanos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.