Kazim

Central Defender - Atletico Venezuela
27 Jul 2027
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Marked for Kazim

38 Edition

The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Apr 2027

The knee: Carlos Soteldo out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atletico Venezuela lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Junior Rosales 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 Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match17 Apr 2027

Deportivo Lara take the points off Atletico Venezuela

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

The manager makes an example of Naygers Flores

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gabriel Osorio left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Atletico Venezuela

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antony Sotelo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings19 Apr 2027

Alejandro Herrera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Kazim is a square peg at Atletico Venezuela

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Héctor Bello left out for tactical reasons at Atletico Venezuela

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

Carlos Soteldo damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings12 Apr 2027

Yonathan del Valle, 37, rolls back the years — 7.94

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Atletico Venezuela

Junior Rosales 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.

Squad12 Apr 2027

A move Kazim would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kazim is living that version at Atletico Venezuela, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces12 Apr 2027

The crowd has taken to Alejandro Herrera

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match10 Apr 2027

Atletico Venezuela find a way past Zulia

Zulia made Atletico Venezuela work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings12 Apr 2027

Alejandro Herrera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Kazim signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kazim and Atletico Venezuela agree another 4 years.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Gabriel Osorio: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief