The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Rosales 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 Estudiantes de Caracas can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Aug 2026
Al-Batin come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Estudiantes de Caracas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tiago Amaral signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tiago Amaral and Estudiantes de Caracas agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas
Darluis Paz 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Sergio Martinez
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Wilmar Castillo
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andres Martinez 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Sergio Martinez was the difference for Estudiantes de Caracas
Marked 7.57. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tiago Amaral will replay that one
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Estudiantes de Caracas and Carabobo
- Market Santiago Herrera joins Estudiantes de Caracas on a free
- Market Darluis Paz joins Estudiantes de Caracas on a free