The Caracas Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Morigi
15 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Rodhier Lezama puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Caracas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luis Del Pino Mago 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 Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Andrés Lugo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Lugo, and the manager let it.
Market28 Sep 2026
The Mauricio Márquez story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mauricio Márquez signs something — a contract at Caracas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Daniel Padilla plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes Robert Garcés 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Francisco La Mantia knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Francisco La Mantia trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andrés Lugo: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Caracas will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- Market Francisco La Mantia runs his contract down
- Squad Alexander González has settled at Caracas