Wilfred Correa

Central Midfielder - Caracas
30 Sep 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Wilfred Correa

83 Edition

The Caracas Herald

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

24 unbeaten for Caracas

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 24 matches without defeat is a foundation Caracas did not have in the autumn.

Match

Caracas march on in the cup

Aragua are out and Caracas go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Lucciano Reinoso wins it after the whistle should have gone

95 minutes played. Lucciano Reinoso found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Aragua went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

The dugout

Alejandro Villarreal keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Caracas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Lucciano Reinoso, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Wilfred Correa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Caracas turn down Real Salt Lake for Frankarlos Benítez

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

The run at home goes on for Caracas

12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Words at Caracas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Everton Bala 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

Back issues
66 Edition

The Caracas Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Robert Garcés has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Caracas

Juan Carlos Azócar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Luis Del Pino Mago 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.

The dugout

Christian Larotonda has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Caracas 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

A step back for Martín Arenas at Caracas

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Loan watch

Frankarlos Benítez’s loan is measured in nothing happening

8 clean sheets from 9 appearances at USM Alger. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

Squad

Everton Bala still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Caracas would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market

The Mauricio Márquez talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Caracas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

The manager makes Jean Frank Gutiérrez a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Caracas. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief