The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Fernando Ferraresi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 41. 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Atletico Venezuela out
Out, 3‑3 to Deportivo Lara, 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
Both of them Yeferson Otero's — 8.75
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.75, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves: Juan Savarino was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Luis Rincon, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68
A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Atletico Venezuela
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Atletico Venezuela are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Juan Romero in a row with a teammate
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Atletico Venezuela against Portuguesa
0‑2 to Portuguesa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market17 Aug 2026
Borneo watching Luis Rincon
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.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Fernando Machis
- Match Late, late show earns Atletico Venezuela a point
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Yeferson Soteldo