Marked for Diego Murillo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Diego Ramirez 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 Titanes Guanare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Ferraresi 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Cordova, and the manager let it.
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
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Roberto Casseres after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
When it matters, Pedro Fulco plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match15 Aug 2026
4‑1, and Diego Murillo took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Titanes Guanare tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match12 Aug 2026
Out, 0‑1 to Rayo Zuliano, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Diego Murillo takes the afternoon — 8.63
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Murillo provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.21, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Titanes Guanare can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Richard Cordova 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Richard Cordova 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
Words at Titanes Guanare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Ferraresi 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout3 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 2‑3 Roberto Casseres left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Titanes Guanare will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Victor Osorio knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Titanes Guanare, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Titanes Guanare have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.