The Deportivo Tachira Gazette
Squad15 Feb 2027
Miguel Monsalve says Deportivo Tachira went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Miguel Monsalve runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market15 Feb 2027
Alexander Rondón Maneiro 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 Deportivo Tachira can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Miguel Monsalve 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 Deportivo Tachira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Deportivo Tachira against Portuguesa
0‑1 to Portuguesa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Leandro Fioravanti 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
The one thing Rodrigo Pollero could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Off the pace: Carlos Calzadilla
A mark of 5.76 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Carlos Calzadilla 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 Deportivo Tachira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market The Edwin Vargas question follows Deportivo Tachira around
- Loan watch Deportivo La Guaira cannot leave Brayan Palmezano out