Diosner Pacheco

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10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Diosner Pacheco

8 Edition

The Mineros de Guayana Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Mineros de Guayana

José Pinto 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.

Squad

Diosner Pacheco has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mineros de Guayana will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Questions about Ángel Peñaranda on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Mineros de Guayana Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Mineros de Guayana

A 1‑0 win over Aragua, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

José Pinto 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.

Player ratings

Stiven Rentería runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mineros de Guayana come up short against Estudiantes de Caracas

Estudiantes de Caracas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Carlos Barreto

18 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.

Squad

Stiven Rentería 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 Mineros de Guayana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Diosmer Pacheco 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.

Squad

Javier Bravo 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 ratings

Nothing got past Diosner Pacheco

14 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.

In brief