Marlon Díaz

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Metropolitanos
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marlon Díaz

4 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Krasnodar come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Andrés Ferro 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 Metropolitanos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Agustín Bianciotti takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

Metropolitanos bow out of the cup

Deportivo La Guaira go through and Metropolitanos go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

Metropolitanos throw away a 3-goal lead

3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Zulia the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Metropolitanos will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Sneider Navarro at 21 — 7.73

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sneider Navarro did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

George Ayine goes up and wins it — 7.62

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.62 for the rest of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marlon Díaz

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Robert Garcés 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 Metropolitanos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Agustín Bianciotti at his very best

Marked 9.61. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Metropolitanos.

Squad

Words at Metropolitanos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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.

In brief