Edwin Vargas

Goalkeeper - Deportivo Tachira
2 Mar 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Edwin Vargas

29 Edition

The Deportivo Tachira Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
25 Edition

The Deportivo Tachira Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Market

So close: Edwin Vargas’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Portuguesa moved on, Edwin Vargas reports back to Deportivo Tachira, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Deportivo Tachira Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Juan David Sánchez asks to leave Deportivo Tachira

“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.

Squad

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.

Market

Mineros de Guayana watching Alexander Rondón Maneiro

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Deportivo Tachira have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Portuguesa expected to open talks for Edwin Vargas

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Deportivo Tachira will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Adrián Montañez knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Montañez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Alejandro Araque linked with a move away

The name of Alejandro Araque keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Deportivo Tachira say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief