Marked for Alejandro Murillo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Atletico Venezuela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Ceballos 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Junior Rincon, and the manager let it.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Atletico Venezuela now.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer from Deportivo Tachira for Matías Bruno 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atletico Venezuela can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Jun 2027
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Atletico Venezuela has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Junior Rincon 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Alejandro Ferraresi is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonny Milla
“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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market11 Jan 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Aragua moved on, Daniel Casseres reports back to Atletico Venezuela, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Richard Murillo may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market11 Jan 2027
Atletico Venezuela spent the window trying to move Alejandro Murillo on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andres Rondon
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atletico Venezuela lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Dec 2026
The fee is $73.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Deportivo Lara drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Atletico Venezuela spend $73.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $73.0K for Adriangel Torrealba, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Market21 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Atletico Venezuela have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad21 Dec 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 Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonny Milla commits to Atletico Venezuela for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 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 Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Atletico Venezuela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Savarino 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Victor Moreno 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 Atletico Venezuela, and both men came out saying it was fine.