Marked for Junior Murillo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yeferson Ramirez signs something — a contract at Titanes Guanare or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gabriel Machis is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Titanes Guanare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yeferson Ramirez signs something — a contract at Titanes Guanare or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Titanes Guanare's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Titanes Guanare has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
David Gonzalez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of David Gonzalez
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.14, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Titanes Guanare had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Real Frontera? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Titanes Guanare. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Titanes Guanare will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
David Gonzalez 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yeferson Ramirez is on it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Gonzalez and Titanes Guanare agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Titanes Guanare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Titanes Guanare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Junior Murillo 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Marítimo de La Guaira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Victor Martinez after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
David Gonzalez 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.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
Bolívar top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.