Adrian Rojas

Central Defender - Atletico Venezuela
27 Jul 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Adrian Rojas

75 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Inyelman Fernández out for 14 days

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

Squad

A fracture rules Brando Castillo out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Metropolitanos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Deportivo Lara come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Metropolitanos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Saimon Ramírez honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Metropolitanos had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Lucas Juárez is a medical away from Metropolitanos

The deal with San Lorenzo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Alexis Rodríguez’s move to Caracas falls through

The deal that would have taken Alexis Rodríguez to Caracas has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Metropolitanos with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

A falling-out at Metropolitanos

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

Transfer targets

Banfield tell Metropolitanos: Tobías Astorga is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Metropolitanos Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Metropolitanos leave it late against Caracas

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Caracas spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

José Riasco scores twice — 8.89

Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Sneider Navarro 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 Metropolitanos, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

$280.0K settles it between the clubs for Jorge Pinto

Aragua have accepted the money. What Metropolitanos do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Miguel Rosales due for a Metropolitanos medical

Everything agreed with Atletico Venezuela, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Boardroom

Metropolitanos to lose Adrian Rojas for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Adrian Rojas has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Match

Metropolitanos make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

A falling-out at Metropolitanos

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

Squad

José Riasco is carrying Metropolitanos

15 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief