Marked for Luis Arango
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Uneasy
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Titanes Guanare have gone to UCV with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Edison Penilla 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alejandro Osorio is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Titanes Guanare are still strangers to each other
9 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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan move for Vicente Reyes is in the works
Titanes Guanare have made the call to Santiago Morning. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Bragantino have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Arango was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Edison Penilla 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 Edison Penilla trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Jose Ramirez's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Titanes Guanare have done the hard part with Godoy Cruz, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Edison Penilla 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Nacional have kept their man, and Titanes Guanare go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Edison Penilla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
This league is too small for Edison Penilla
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Titanes Guanare will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Oscar Cordova has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Arango was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Edison Penilla asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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 Alejandro Rincon is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luis Uliambre and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Ramirez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luis Arango is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Luis Arango has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Titanes Guanare's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Titanes Guanare has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jose Ramirez 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 Titanes Guanare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Ramirez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Real Frontera, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Andres Lemos 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Alejandro Herrera left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Jose Ramirez dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The shirt belongs to Luis Arango now
At 24 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Titanes Guanare have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” José Luis Acosta and Titanes Guanare agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Titanes Guanare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Titanes Guanare will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Richard Herrera has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yeferson Castillo, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Franco Morales
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Titanes Guanare will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.58. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Emmen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about José Luis Acosta. The answer from Titanes Guanare has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
José Luis Acosta 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Gonzalez and Titanes Guanare agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Titanes Guanare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Ramirez 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. Barquisimeto had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Titanes Guanare know which stage they are at.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Jose Ramirez is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.