The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Atletico Venezuela
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rafael Cordova was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Atletico Venezuela
David Savarino 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
When it matters, Luis Otero 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
The Darwin Casseres question follows Atletico Venezuela around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Darwin Casseres’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
David Savarino 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 David Savarino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager plants his flag on Cristian Casseres
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Cristian Casseres’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Jose Casseres is not doing himself any favours
- Boardroom The Atletico Venezuela board put their names to it
- Squad Welcome back, Rafael Castillo