The Deportivo Lara Herald
Squad30 Nov 2026
The knee: Richard Herrera out for 102 days
102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Lara lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market30 Nov 2026
José Ardila has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Deportivo Lara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Deportivo Lara
Franco Carretero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Deportivo Lara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Zambrano 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Richard Figueroa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Lara will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Yaicar Perdomo
“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.
In brief
- Squad Alejandro Torres wants out of the dugout
- The dugout Emir Basabe has been promised minutes
- The dugout Enmanuel Verde asks for a word with the manager