Sergio Herrera

Left Back - Llaneros
23 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Sergio Herrera

30 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sergio Herrera hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Llaneros can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Alejandro Gutiérrez says Llaneros went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Juan Machis 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 Llaneros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Llaneros against Caracas

1‑3 to Caracas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andres Moreno

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Llaneros

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

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26 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Juan Machis breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Junior Machis damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Sergio Herrera puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Llaneros, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for Llaneros

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Juan Machis 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 Llaneros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Llaneros

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

Roberto Murillo steps up from the Llaneros academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Murillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Sergio Cordova steps up from the Llaneros academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergio Cordova has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Llaneros promote Miguel Murillo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Murillo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

2 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Juan Machis scores twice — 8.14

Two goals and a mark of 8.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Avispa Fukuoka join the queue for Junior Machis

Add another name to the list: Avispa Fukuoka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Junior Machis. The answer from Llaneros has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Jose Savarino runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Juan Machis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Machis commits to Llaneros for another 3 years.

Match

A bad afternoon for Llaneros against Aragua

3‑5 to Aragua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Tempers go at Llaneros

Juan Machis 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.

Match

8 goals as Llaneros and Aragua go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Llaneros and Aragua, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sergio Herrera

“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.

Squad

Words at Llaneros training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darwin Casseres 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.

In brief