Junior Castillo

Left Midfielder - Llaneros
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Junior Castillo

6 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Llaneros bow out of the cup

Estudiantes de Merida go through and Llaneros go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Carlos Herrera, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81

A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Andres Murillo 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 The request is on a desk at Llaneros, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Benicio Blanco 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Cristian Osorio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Osorio, and the manager let it.

Squad

Salomon Rosales 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.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Llaneros Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Llaneros march on in the cup

Deportivo Lara are out and Llaneros go through, 4‑3 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Both of them Gabriel Ramirez's — 8.89

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Carlos Herrera at 19 — 8.42

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Carlos Herrera did not need any: 8.42, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Rafael Arango keeps Llaneros in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Eyes on Oscar Machis again

The phone has started ringing about Oscar Machis again, and this time the name on the line is Fatih Karagumruk. Llaneros are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match

Nobody wants to play Llaneros right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Junior Castillo

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Erick Sarmiento 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

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Llaneros and Deportivo Lara in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief