Marked for Daniel Casseres
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
Zamora come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atletico Venezuela did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Atletico Venezuela, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jesús Villarroel 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Atletico Venezuela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Fonseca 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roberto Machis and Atletico Venezuela agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jesús Villarroel 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Daniel Casseres 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Marcos Fonseca has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diego Borges breaks a bone — 53 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jesús Villarroel 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Diego Borges breaks a bone — 83 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Atletico Venezuela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Fonseca 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.
Squad14 Sep 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 Atletico Venezuela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Diego Borges breaks a bone — 97 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jesús Villarroel 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Diego Borges gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Deportivo Lara go through and Atletico Venezuela go home, 2‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Daniel Casseres takes the afternoon — 8.30
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniel Casseres provided it, and the 8.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jesús Villarroel 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match15 Aug 2026
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Atletico Venezuela training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Fonseca 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.