The Deportivo Lara Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Deportivo Lara
Franco Carretero 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Draghi
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Deportivo Lara are still strangers to each other
26 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Franco Carretero 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 Franco Carretero trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Willimger Castillo 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Richard Figueroa story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Richard Figueroa signs something — a contract at Deportivo Lara or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Richard Figueroa keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Questions about Johan Arrieche on the training pitch
- Squad Jesús González is out on the grass again