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The Primera Division Herald

1 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Terms done: Alexander Rondón Oliveros is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mineros de Guayana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Deportivo Tachira is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

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Juan Camilo Pérez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Carabobo, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Zamora come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Deportivo Tachira did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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The Primera Division Herald

1 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Jorge Merlo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Lara, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Cristhián Rivas told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Cristhián Rivas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Estudiantes de Merida.

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Mineros de Guayana and Juan Ojeda 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.

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The Primera Division Herald

1 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Osnel García puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Trujillanos, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Lautaro Lovazzano is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Portuguesa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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Caracas may not be able to give Christian Larotonda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Christian Larotonda wants continental football; whether Caracas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

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The Primera Division Herald

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Jesús Hernández says no to Malavan

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jesús Hernández had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

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Juan Camacaro has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aragua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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Stiven Valencia puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zamora, and it is not being withdrawn.

2 Edition

The Primera Division Herald

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Ronny Maza

The month closes with Ronny Maza out in front — 8 goals in 4 games, and Aragua have the division's most feared finisher.

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Player of the month: Ronny Maza — 7.75

Everybody in the division was measured and a Aragua man came out on top: 7.75 across the month and 9 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Zamora

Isaí Valladares was marked 6.99 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Lech come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Carabobo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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Jesús Gamarra asks to leave Zulia

“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.

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Albert García leads the division for assists — 6.81

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Aragua player marked 6.81, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Only the photograph left for Agustín Bianciotti

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Bianciotti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Metropolitanos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Eyes on Jesús Hernández again

The phone has started ringing about Jesús Hernández again, and this time the name on the line is Malavan. Estudiantes de Merida are listening politely and promising nothing.

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Fernando Rincon is the division's best-marked player — 8.10

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.10 across 4 matches for Llaneros.

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Darwin Machís is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Carabobo, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Adalberto Peñaranda keeps the pressure on

5 goals in 4 appearances for Deportivo Tachira leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Victor Rincon is right behind him

4 goals in 4 appearances for Llaneros, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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The Primera Division Herald

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Juan Camilo Pérez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Carabobo can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

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Nobody at Carabobo has picked up the phone to Lucas Bruera

5 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

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No place for Juan Ramírez in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Ramírez has his answer from Estudiantes de Merida; what he does with it is the next window’s story.