Álex Sánchez

Central Defender - Cultural Leonesa
14 Feb 2027
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23 Edition

The Cultural Leonesa Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Íñigo out for 56 days

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

Market4 Jan 2027

Ángel García asks to leave Cultural Leonesa

“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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Adán Gurdiel keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cultural Leonesa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The season belongs to Antonino La Gumina

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Cultural Leonesa have had the benefit of it.

Market4 Jan 2027

Cultural Leonesa say no — this time

The offer from Ceuta for Miguel Bañuz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Cultural Leonesa

Íñigo 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 ratings4 Jan 2027

Víctor Moreno runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match2 Jan 2027

Racing Santander take the points off Cultural Leonesa

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

The one thing Antonino La Gumina could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Cultural Leonesa Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match31 Oct 2026

No end in sight to Cultural Leonesa's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cultural Leonesa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Íñigo 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 Cultural Leonesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at Cultural Leonesa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Éder is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match31 Oct 2026

Thiago Ojeda’s goal not enough for Cultural Leonesa

Thiago Ojeda scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Deportivo La Coruña, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

Wages eat 158% of everything Cultural Leonesa 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Éder

“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.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Víctor Moreno

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad2 Nov 2026

20 new faces, and Cultural Leonesa are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

Everybody has an opinion about Antonino La Gumina

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

10 Edition

The Oviedo Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Haissem Hassan

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Oviedo

Éric Bailly 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

David Carmo 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

249% of the income goes out in wages at Oviedo

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Aarón Escandell 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 Oct 2026

Betis take the points off Oviedo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market5 Oct 2026

Oviedo and Pablo Sáenz are talking past each other

“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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Gonzalo Verdú dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

The chances came and went for Thiago Fernández

7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

7 Edition

The Oviedo Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Alberto Reina

35 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Aarón Escandell

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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nothing got past David Carmo

27 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Match12 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for Oviedo

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Oviedo are no longer polite ones.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Oviedo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Carmo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Federico Viñas

“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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Oviedo

6 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Haissem Hassan

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market14 Sep 2026

Álex Sánchez brings the grey hairs Oviedo lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief