The Llaneros Herald
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Casseres
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Llaneros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Llaneros
0‑1 against Deportivo Tachira, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Llaneros
Fernando Rincon 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Machis 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Richard Ramirez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Fernando Rincon at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Llaneros.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
David Castillo 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Llaneros caught on 95 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Portuguesa scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Llaneros lose Rafael Soteldo
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Alejandro Hurtado's mistake
- Match Llaneros share the spoils with Portuguesa
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Alejandro Rondon on the draw