David Arango

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149 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Jun 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Arango

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes de Caracas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match4 Jun 2029

Estudiantes de Caracas are in real trouble now

Position 14, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match2 Jun 2029

The wait goes on for Estudiantes de Caracas

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.

Squad4 Jun 2029

A falling-out at Estudiantes de Caracas

Moisés Gallo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Jorge Páez 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.

Transfer targets4 Jun 2029

Door shut on Augusto Subirats

Estudiantes de Caracas asked and Caracas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match2 Jun 2029

Estudiantes de Caracas come up short against Trujillanos

Trujillanos left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings4 Jun 2029

Daniel Bolívar beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout4 Jun 2029

Cristian Casseres: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
148 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 May 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Arango

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes de Caracas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout28 May 2029

Lautaro Agüero: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Estudiantes de Caracas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match26 May 2029

4 matches without a win for Estudiantes de Caracas

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Estudiantes de Caracas are no longer polite ones.

Squad28 May 2029

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

Moisés Gallo 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.

Squad28 May 2029

A row about effort at Estudiantes de Caracas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Páez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match26 May 2029

Zamora take the points off Estudiantes de Caracas

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout28 May 2029

The manager makes an example of Luis Torres

“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.

The dugout28 May 2029

Cristian Casseres faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Cristian Casseres after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout28 May 2029

Brayan Manrique has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas 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.

In brief

147 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 May 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Arango

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes de Caracas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market21 May 2029

Brayan Manrique 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 Estudiantes de Caracas, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout21 May 2029

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Squad21 May 2029

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

Jorge Páez 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.

Player ratings21 May 2029

Ángel Lezama beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match19 May 2029

Estudiantes de Caracas come up short against Llaneros

Llaneros left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout21 May 2029

Moisés Gallo 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.

The dugout21 May 2029

Cristian Casseres faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Cristian Casseres after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout21 May 2029

Moisés Gallo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas 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.

In brief

124 Edition

The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets11 Dec 2028

Estudiantes de Caracas agree $1.1M for Jesús Quintero

The clubs have shaken hands with Deportivo Tachira; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market11 Dec 2028

Terms done: Mauricio Chanampa is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Zulia waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets11 Dec 2028

Joaquín Flores is a medical away from Estudiantes de Caracas

The deal with River Plate is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Estudiantes de Caracas

Moisés Gallo 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.

Squad11 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Estudiantes de Caracas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Páez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets11 Dec 2028

Estudiantes de Caracas rebuffed over Santiago Del Valle

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cerro Porteno have kept their man, and Estudiantes de Caracas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market11 Dec 2028

David Arango already looking beyond Estudiantes de Caracas

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Market11 Dec 2028

Estudiantes de Caracas buy the years ahead of David Arango

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad11 Dec 2028

David Arango stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Arango and Estudiantes de Caracas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief