Leandro Ortiz

Central Defender - Caracas
28 Aug 2036
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Marked for Leandro Ortiz

497 Edition

The Caracas Herald

4 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Feb 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joel Ortiz

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Caracas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match2 Feb 2036

No mercy from Caracas

Marítimo de La Guaira will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Caracas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings4 Feb 2036

Both of them Leandro Ortiz's — 7.80

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.80, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market4 Feb 2036

Cristopher Varela asks to leave Caracas

“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.

The dugout4 Feb 2036

Kevin Caraballo 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.

Market4 Feb 2036

Alejo Gelsomino is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Caracas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad4 Feb 2036

Brayan Marín arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Brayan Marín has, at Caracas, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad4 Feb 2036

Lucas Cuevas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Cuevas commits to Caracas for another 2 years.

Squad4 Feb 2036

A falling-out at Caracas

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

In brief

Back issues
496 Edition

The Caracas Herald

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Jan 2036

The run at home goes on for Caracas

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

Squad28 Jan 2036

Joel Ortiz damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.

Market28 Jan 2036

Miguel Palacios 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 Caracas can pretend not to have heard.

Market28 Jan 2036

Only the photograph left for Agustín Bianciotti

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Bianciotti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Caracas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Exon Arzú reaches 100 goals

100 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

Market28 Jan 2036

Caracas may not be able to give Rodrigo Godoy what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Rodrigo Godoy wants continental football; whether Caracas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match26 Jan 2036

Exon Arzú the difference as Caracas beat Anzoátegui

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Exon Arzú. 1‑0 against Anzoátegui, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Words at Caracas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Cuevas 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.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Tempers go at Caracas

Jhon Lucumí 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.

In brief

481 Edition

The Caracas Herald

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market15 Oct 2035

Fabrizio Ghiggia 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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Caracas lose Miguel Palacios

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad15 Oct 2035

A row about effort at Caracas

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

Squad15 Oct 2035

A falling-out at Caracas

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

Market15 Oct 2035

Alejo Gelsomino has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Caracas can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Jose Savarino out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Jose Savarino, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Lucas Cuevas gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lucas Cuevas is on it.

The dugout15 Oct 2035

Leandro Ortiz 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.

Market15 Oct 2035

Still no ink between Caracas and David Miguel

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Caracas, another week without a signature from David Miguel.

In brief