Daniel Rincon

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
18 May 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Rincon

226 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

25 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ismael Páez

101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aragua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Aragua are in real trouble now

Position 14, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Jean Issa breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Darwin Ramirez says Aragua went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Leonel Moreno 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 Aragua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Aragua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wilken Ramírez 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.

In brief

Back issues
220 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

14 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Aragua has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

64 days out for Jean Issa after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aragua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A falling-out at Aragua

Leonel Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Aragua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wilken Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

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Market

Daniel Rincon is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aragua has been clear about where Daniel Rincon stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

205 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ismael Páez

107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aragua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Aragua

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Aragua is running low.

Market

Daniel Rincon puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aragua, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at Aragua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wilken Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Franco Sassone

Aragua asked and Deportivo Tachira said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Aragua come up short against Caracas

Caracas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Aragua promote Darwin Arango from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Darwin Arango has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Aragua promote Roberto Ramirez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roberto Ramirez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Victor Martinez joins the Aragua first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

177 Edition

The Aragua Chronicle

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Luis Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 65 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 65 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Aragua

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Aragua is running low.

Squad

28 days out for Cristian Rondon after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aragua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

The season belongs to Sebastián González

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Aragua have had the benefit of it.

Transfer targets

Aragua agree $86.0K for Gabriel Osorio

The clubs have shaken hands with Deportivo Lara; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

Wilken Ramírez falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Benjamín Garay

Aragua asked and Estudiantes de Merida said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Daniel Rincon

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Aragua were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

The dugout

Gregorio Pulero 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 Gregorio Pulero trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief