Alejandro Castillo

Goalkeeper - Estudiantes de Caracas
24 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Castillo

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The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Victor Arango out for 93 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Estudiantes de Caracas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Estudiantes de Caracas say no — this time

The offer from Deportivo La Guaira for Gustavo Correa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 43 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Alejandro Castillo 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 The request is on a desk at Estudiantes de Caracas, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Victor Arango 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 Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gustavo Correa 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas get the job done against Zulia

A 2‑1 win over Zulia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Salomon Arango 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.

Player ratings

Yeferson Arango stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.89 on the card, and the Estudiantes de Caracas support went home talking about one name.

In brief

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48 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Victor Arango out for 107 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Estudiantes de Caracas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Gustavo Correa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estudiantes de Caracas can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Gustavo Correa 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Edgar Silva

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Yeferson Arango 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.

Match

Estudiantes de Caracas get the job done against Estudiantes de Merida

A 1‑0 win over Estudiantes de Merida, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Gabriel Machis

12 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Gabriel Machis has given nobody the chance.

Loan watch

Junior Cordova counts the days

“I watch every Estudiantes de Caracas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportivo Lara runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings

Marber Suárez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief