The Mineros de Guayana Courier
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Roberto Ferraresi
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mineros de Guayana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Mineros de Guayana agree a free transfer for Yilber García
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Mineros de Guayana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diosmer Pacheco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Mineros de Guayana
Carlos García 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ángel Peñaranda 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 Ángel Peñaranda trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
When it matters, Emilxon Rodríguez 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.
In brief
- Market Ángel Peñaranda runs his contract down
- Squad Somebody is after Luis Terán’s shirt
- The dugout The manager comes out for Carlos Espinoza