Marked for Francisco Ramirez
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Rafael Machis sold
Zulia arrived with $1.8M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Otero out for 29 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.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Rafael Machis was one of the reasons people came, and $1.8M does not replace that by itself.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Rafael Ferraresi 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Herrera and Estudiantes de Caracas agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Rondon 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Match27 Nov 2026
1‑1 against Once Caldas, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Otero out for 36 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Cristian Murillo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Estudiantes de Caracas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Victor Rincon wants continental football; whether Estudiantes de Caracas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 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 Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Yeferson Cordova at 20 — 7.87
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Yeferson Cordova did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Victor Rincon wants continental football; whether Estudiantes de Caracas can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Victor Rincon 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Yeferson Cordova has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Portuguesa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.