The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Victor Soteldo
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Estudiantes de Caracas out
Out, 2‑3 to Zamora, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Central Coast Mariners 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Richard Ramirez takes the afternoon — 7.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Richard Ramirez provided it, and the 7.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from David Martinez
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match15 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jair Andara 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 Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
José Ferrer 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Mineros de Guayana take the points off Estudiantes de Caracas
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Cristian Rosales
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Daniel Osorio
- Player ratings Junior Herrera ran the game