The Aragua Chronicle
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Rody Gómez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aragua have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Yonner Borges
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Aragua will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Aragua
Jorge Páez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Aragua
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edwards Pereira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Sporting Cristal tell Aragua: Diego Otoya 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
When it matters, Adrián Briceño 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
- The dugout Jorge Pinto knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Bendrix Parra