The Atletico Venezuela Sentinel
Squad11 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Richard Arango
14 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Guillermo Coronel 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
Atletico Venezuela and Tiago Taobas are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Luis Rincon has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Atletico Venezuela will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market11 Sep 2028
The Ignacio Bessone question follows Atletico Venezuela around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ignacio Bessone’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Guillermo Coronel has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Guillermo Coronel has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Dipson Meza knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Questions about Francisco Uviedo on the training pitch
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ignacio Bessone
- Squad Junior Ramirez is out on the grass again