The Estudiantes de Merida Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Estudiantes de Merida
Cristhián Rivas 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
José Antonio Montilla in the eights
A performance of 9.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One of those days for César Magallan
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.73, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Bryan Rivera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bryan Rivera, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at Estudiantes de Merida has picked up the phone to Juan Carlos Azócar
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
César Magallan rescues a point for Estudiantes de Merida
It needed César Magallan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Deportivo Tachira, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Cristopher Rodríguez gives it away
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Estudiantes de Merida lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Andrés Montero
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
César Magallan is off the mark for Estudiantes de Merida
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
In brief
- Squad José Antonio Montilla finally opens his account
- Market Estudiantes de Merida and Tito Rojas are talking past each other
- The terraces The press have found their man in César Magallan