Kar Luis Sánchez

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2 Dec 2027
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The Mineros de Guayana Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

16 matches without a win for Mineros de Guayana

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Mineros de Guayana are no longer polite ones.

Squad

48 days out for Ángelo Peña after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mineros de Guayana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

A hiding for Mineros de Guayana

Beaten 0‑4 by Carabobo, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Aquiles Ocanto 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 Mineros de Guayana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Edwar Bracho 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

Kar Luis Sánchez 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Mineros de Guayana

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Francisco Arango faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Francisco Arango after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Mineros de Guayana

Caracas top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

In brief

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The Mineros de Guayana Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

$1.2M settles it between the clubs for José Barragán

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

Squad

A move Jair Andara 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. Jair Andara is living that version at Mineros de Guayana, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Mineros de Guayana

Aquiles Ocanto 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Mineros de Guayana

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

Squad

Jair Andara is a square peg at Mineros de Guayana

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.

Market

Mineros de Guayana and Jair Andara are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Jeremi Machado 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 Jeremi Machado is on it.

The dugout

Tomás Zamora 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 Tomás Zamora trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

César Salazar linked with a move away

The name of César Salazar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mineros de Guayana say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief