David Rincon

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Llaneros
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for David Rincon

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The Llaneros Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Luis Gonzalez

28 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Gabriel Otero at 21 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gabriel Otero did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

David 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 The request is on a desk at Llaneros, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for Llaneros

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Llaneros are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Llaneros

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

Squad

Thiago Yossen 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Gabriel Otero

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Benjamín Romano was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.55. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

No time for Trujillanos to settle

The goal that put Trujillanos ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Llaneros equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

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The Llaneros Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

34 days out for Junior Castillo after a fracture

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

Match

No end in sight to Llaneros's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Llaneros has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Llaneros

Yeferson Murillo 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.

Player ratings

Gabriel Otero was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Llaneros

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

Match

Llaneros refuse to lose to Atletico Venezuela

A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Llaneros

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

David Rincon rescues a point for Llaneros

It needed David Rincon to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Atletico Venezuela, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Darwin Osorio: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief