Marked for Miguel Ramirez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguel Ramirez
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Llaneros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Market21 Dec 2026
Carabobo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Llaneros did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Benicio Blanco 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Cristian Osorio has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Llaneros 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Miguel Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 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.
Match11 Dec 2026
Llaneros throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Progreso the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Llaneros will enjoy reviewing.
Match11 Dec 2026
A European lesson for Llaneros
2‑4 against Progreso. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match11 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Llaneros's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Llaneros has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Dec 2026
Trujillanos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Llaneros did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Llaneros — 7.44
1 for Cristian Osorio, marked 7.44, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The fee is $64.0K, 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 terraces14 Dec 2026
Llaneros spend $64.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $64.0K for José Ardila, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Miguel Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Trujillanos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gabriel Ramirez. The answer from Llaneros has not changed — yet.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Miguel Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.
Match27 Nov 2026
Llaneros do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Llaneros came through the finding-out well against Once Caldas.
Match27 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Llaneros
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Llaneros are no longer polite ones.
Market30 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 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 Llaneros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Miguel Ramirez damages knee ligaments — 137 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 137 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Erick Sarmiento 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.